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, ...

In Word and Object, W.V. Quine dismisses connotations that result from the work of explicating expressions as “don’t-cares.” This paper traces the history of this phrase to an algorithm that Quine ...

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.

The Monist helped to professionalize philosophy as an academic discipline in the United States by publishing philosophers such as Lewis White Beck, John Dewey, Gottlob Frege, Hans-Georg Gadamer, ...