Review of Quine's The Significance of the New Logic (original) (raw)
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Axioms, 2019
In this review, I will discuss the historical importance of "The Significance of the New Logic" by Quine. This is a translation of the original "O Sentido da Nova Lógica" in Portuguese by Carnielli, Janssen-Lauret, and Pickering. The American philosopher wrote this book in the beginning of the 1940s, before a major shift in his philosophy. Thus, I will argue that the reader must see this book as a picture of an important period in his thinking. Later, I will expose a brief summary of the chapters, remarking on valuable features in each of them and positions Quine abandoned in his later work. for scholars to have access in full to most originals. But, since the 1940s were a period of maturation of Quine's philosophy, this translation fills a historical gap Quine scholars were hoping. Carnielli, Janssen-Lauret and Pickering explore in many details the context in which Quine wrote this book. They have. been successful in presenting the Brazilian philosophical background, especially on what concerns. its relative their absence in the analytical scenario. In this respect, the book intended to further the Brazilians to analytic philosophy. Discussions and techniques developed by Frege, Russell, Carnap, Tarsky, Godel and others are therefore the primary topics in the volume. We note that Quine intended SNL to be a textbook. As such, the volume fails to give an updated overview of techniques and it uses a deprecated language. But, SNL can now be regarded as a picture of Quine's view on logic in the early 1940s. It is an overstate to regard the book only as a textbook. The way Quine develops the logical apparatus and his preparatory remarks are particular of a very distinct philosophical position. By a close examination of his writing, we realize he was arguing for an extensional, nominalistic leaning ontology and a rather reluctant logicist position. The latter part of the book is dedicated to a discussion on themes such as ontology and its relation with philosophy of language and logic. He drafts in Portuguese the first version of his later work: "Notes on Existence and Necessity". Thus, he exits the scope of a pure textbook, including contemporary discussions on ontology and philosophy of mathematics. These topics are accompanied by the flavour of the inner conflict that suggests parts of Quine's mature philosophy.
Review of Quine: The Significance of the New Logic
Mind, 2021
An English translation of O Sentido da Nova Lógica 1944; most interesting for Quine's having expressed a version of instrumentalism about mathematics, in response to Gödel’s first incompleteness theorem. [typos corrected 12/9/19]
THE NATURE OF LOGICAL KNOWLEDGE: AN UNFINISHED AGENDA OF QUINE'S PHILOSOPHY 2014
This paper will critically and systematically examine Quine's philosophy of logic in the background of his naturalized epistemology. It has three sections. Section I expounds what Quine has said about logic or logical truth, summarized as his 11 theses about logic; section II investigates what troubles there are in what Quine has said about logic, involving Katz's revisability paradox, the paradox of bad translation and revisability, the paradox of deviance and revisability, and the paradox of revising logic by using logic, and how we resolve the troubles in order to make his philosophy of logic coherent; section III conceives what Quine should say further about logic, for example, why logic is revisable? Does logic have connection with the world in which we live, with our cognition of the world, and with our language? If yes, how? If logic is really revisable, how do we revise logic? More specifically, by what ways, procedures or means do we revise logic? Why is it so difficult for most people, even for some eminent philosophers, to accept the logic-revisable thesis? And so on.
Axioms
In this review, I will discuss the historical importance of “The Significance of the New Logic” by Quine. This is a translation of the original “O Sentido da Nova Lógica” in Portuguese by Carnielli, Janssen-Lauret, and Pickering. The American philosopher wrote this book in the beginning of the 1940s, before a major shift in his philosophy. Thus, I will argue that the reader must see this book as an introduction to an important period in his thinking. I will provide a brief summary of the chapters, remarking on valuable features in each of them and positions Quine abandoned in his later work.
CORCORAN ON QUINE’S PHILOSOPHY OF LOGIC
CORCORAN ON QUINE’S PHILOSOPHY OF LOGIC Corcoran, J. 1972. Quine, Willard. Philosophy of Logic. In Philosophy of Science 39, 97–99. WILLARD QUINE, Philosophy of logic, Harvard, 1970/1986. This book is best regarded as a concise essay developing the personal views of a major philosopher of logic and as such it is to be welcomed by scholars in the field. It is not (and does not purport to be) a treatment of a significant portion of those philosophical problems generally thought to be germane to logic. It would be easy to list many popular topics in philosophy of logic which it does not mention. Even its "definition" of logic-"the systematic study of logical truth"-is peculiar to the author and would be regarded as inappropriately restrictive by many logicians There are several standard ways of defining truth using sequences. Quine’s discussions in the 1970 first printing of Philosophy of logic and in previous lectures were vitiated by mixing two. Quine’s logical Two-Method Error, which eluded Quine’s colleagues, was corrected in the 1978 sixth printing. But Quine never explicitly acknowledged, described, or even mentioned the error in print although in correspondence he did thank Corcoran for bringing it to his attention. In regard to style one may note that the book is rich in metaphorical and sometimes even cryptic passages one of the more remarkable of which occurs in the Preface and seems to imply that deductive logic does not warrant distinctive philosophical treatment. Moreover, the author's sesquipedalian performances sometimes subvert perspicuity.
Ascent to Truth: a Critical Examination of Quine's Philosophy
dialectica, 1988
This book focuses on issues in epistemology, semantics and logic with Quine's views always setting the themes, even if Quine does not always remain quite at center stage. Gochet, Professor at Li•ge and Secretary to the Editorial Board of Logique et Analyse is a prominent of Quine's views in Europe. The author does not aim to take up the whole of Quine's philosophy here. Rather, the aim is to "focus on a few central themes...and to treat them thoroughly." Continental Europe not only recognizes Quine's importance, then, but it is prepared to talk back: a point which has become increasingly evident in the wake of several recent works on Quine by W.K. Essler (1975), J. Largeault (1980) and Henri Lauener (1982). Gochet has made an earlier contribution to this in the form of his Quine en Perspective (1978) and its German translation (1984). But the present volume is not a further translation of the earlier work. Rather, the author "tried to avoid overlap."