This landmark work provides a systematic introduction to systems of modal logic and stands as the first presentation of what have become central ideas in philosophy of language and metaphysics, from t
The work of the philosopher Donald Davidson (1917--2003) is not only wide ranging inits influence and vision, but also in the breadth of issues that it encompasses. Davidson's workincludes seminal con
Over the course of his life, W. V. Quine, one of the twentieth century’s great philosophers, engaged and inspired, interviewed and critiqued countless scholars, critics, and students. The qualities th
W. V. Quine created a new way of looking at the eternal questions of philosophy and their interconnections. His investigations into semantics and epistemology, ontology and causality, natural kinds, t
Willard Van Orman Quine begins this influential work by declaring, "Language isa social art. In acquiring it we have to depend entirely on intersubjectively available cues as towhat to say and when."
