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Pursuit of Truth: Revised Edition Paperback – October 20, 1992

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In Pursuit of Truth W. V. Quine gives us his latest word on issues to which he has devoted many years. As he says in the preface: "In these pages I have undertaken to update, sum up, and clarify my variously intersecting views on cognitive meaning, objective reference, and the grounds of knowledge' The pursuit of truth is a quest that links observation, theory, and the world. Various faulty efforts to forge such links have led to much intellectual confusion. Quine's efforts to get beyond the confusion begin by rejecting the very idea of binding together word and thing, rejecting the focus on the isolated word. For him, observation sentences and theoretical sentences are the alpha and omega ofthe scientific enterprise. Notions like "idea" and "meaning" are vague, but a sentence-now there's something you can sink your teeth into. Starting thus with sentences, Quine sketches an epistemological setting for the pursuit of truth. He proceeds to show how reification and reference contribute to the elaborate structure that can indeed relate science to its sensory evidence. In this book Quine both summarizes and moves ahead. Rich, lively chapters dissect his major concerns-evidence, reference, meaning, intension, and truth. "Some points" he writes, "have become clearer in my mind in the eight years since Theories and Things. Some that were already clear in my mind have become clearer on paper. And there are some that have meanwhile undergone substantive change for the better" This is a key book for understanding the effort that a major philosopher has made a large part of his life's work: to naturalize epistemology in the twentieth century. The book is concise and elegantly written, as one would expect, and does not assume the reader's previous acquaintance with Quine's writings. Throughout, it is marked by Quine's wit and economy of style.
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Pursuit of Truth is, like all Quine’s works, most engagingly written. He strives for concision of the most telegraphic sort, and achieves it in a way that gives the special pleasure evoked by a conspicuous skill.”Anthony Quinton, The Times

“With his usual wit and aplomb, Quine offers here his latest―though one hopes and expects not his last―word on a variety of intersecting topics that have figured centrally in his life’s work… The book offers not only a lucid and compelling summary of Quine’s views, but also provides invaluable clarifications, reformulations, and substantive updating… Capable of serving as a concise introduction to Quine’s views, this book will also prove invaluable in more sophisticated efforts to understand and appraise his accomplishments.”
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In Pursuit of Truth W. V. Quine gives us his latest word on issues to which he has devoted many years. As he says in the preface: 'In these pages I have undertaken to update, sum up, and clarify my variously intersecting views on cognitive meaning, objective reference, and the grounds of knowledge.' The pursuit of truth is a quest that links observation, theory, and the world. Various faulty efforts to forge such links have led to much intellectual confusion.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harvard University Press
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 20, 1992
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ includes a Preface to the Revised
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 126 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0674739515
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0674739512
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.32 x 9 inches
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  • Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2009
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    I was immensely pleased with this book. As an expository introduction to Quine's thought it does nicely. For one such as me, one not terribly familiar with Quine's work but a student of philosophy, the language was clear and easy to understand. I suggest that if you have not studied much philosophy, mathematics, or lingusitics the language will not be altogether clear. That is only to say Quine uses technical language often enough. If you are not altogether familiar with the technical language that has sprung up in the analytic tradition, this work will require studying rather than just reading. That being said, Quine does expend some energy in making the book understandable to the novice; with a little work, anyone can follow the exposition.

    Once last word before I go. This book is an exposition of Quine's thought. Quine's thought is a system constructed in response to the failures of Logical positivism and other radical empirical movements. His starting point, then, are the problems that linguistic philosophy and empiricism faced. If one is not aware of those problems and schools of thought, some of the exposition will have to be read as both an introduction to those problems and one man's solutions, particularly the chapters on Meaning, Intention and Truth. I think no better author or book can be found to introduce those problems, and the solutions herein are effiecent, to say the very least.
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