Willard Van Orman Quine, one of America’s preeminent thinkers, whose analysis of language and reality had wide influence in the world of philosophy, has died. The Edgar Pierce professor emeritus at ...

The Journal for General Philosophy of Science is a forum for discussion concerning the philosophy of science. Its subject matter encompasses the philosophical, especially methodological, ontological, ...

Given his hostility to intensional locutions, it is not surprising that Quine was suspicious of the subjunctive conditional. Although he admitted its usefulness as a heuristic device, in order to ...

Willard Van Orman Quine, 92, for decades one of the luminaries of the American academic world, a philosopher who did his thinking about thought itself, died on Christmas Day in Boston, where he lived.

**Susanna Siegel** is the Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University, a chair held in the past by B.F. Skinner, Willard van Orman Quine, and Charles Parsons. Siegel’s primary research ...