{"product_id":"word-and-object-new-edition-9780262518314","title":"Word and Object, new edition","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new edition of Quine's most important work.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eWillard Van Orman Quine begins this influential work by declaring, \"Language is a social art. In acquiring it we have to depend entirely on intersubjectively available cues as to what to say and when.\" As Patricia Smith Churchland notes in her foreword to this new edition, with \u003ci\u003eWord and Object\u003c\/i\u003e Quine challenged the tradition of conceptual analysis as a way of advancing knowledge. The book signaled twentieth-century philosophy's turn away from metaphysics and what Churchland calls the \"phony precision\" of conceptual analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the course of his discussion of meaning and the linguistic mechanisms of objective reference, Quine considers the indeterminacy of translation, brings to light the anomalies and conflicts implicit in our language's referential apparatus, clarifies semantic problems connected with the imputation of existence, and marshals reasons for admitting or repudiating each of various categories of supposed objects. In addition to Churchland's foreword, this edition offers a new preface by Quine's student and colleague Dagfinn Follesdal that describes the never-realized plans for a second edition of \u003ci\u003eWord and Object\u003c\/i\u003e, in which Quine would offer a more unified treatment of the public nature of meaning, modalities, and propositional attitudes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWillard Van Orman Quine (1908-2000) held the Edgar Pierce Chair of Philosophy at Harvard University from 1956 to 2000. Considered one the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, he is the author of \u003ci\u003eMathematical Logic, The Roots of Reference, The Time of My Life: An Autobiography\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press), and many other books. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePatricia S. Churchland is President's Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the University of California, San Diego, and Adjunct Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences. She is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eNeurophilosophy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBrain-Wise\u003c\/i\u003e (both published by the MIT Press). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDagfinn Føllesdal is C. I. Lewis Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Stanford University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50318721515794,"sku":"9780262518314","price":54.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1e1f12a5-3f70-457e-a4b5-b22897181d78.jpg?v=1727560294","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/word-and-object-new-edition-9780262518314","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}