9781107179028 QUINE ET AL – THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE NEW LOGIC JACKET C M Y K The SIGNIFICANCE of the NEW LOGIC The SIGNIFICANCE of the NEW LOGIC The SIGNIFICANCE of the NEW LOGIC Willard Van Orman Quine Translated and edited by Walter Carnielli, Frederique Janssen-Lauret, and William Pickering Quine Carnielli, Janssen-Lauret, and Pickering Willard Van Orman Quine was one of the most inluential igures of twentieth-century American analytic philosophy. Although he wrote predominantly in English, in Brazil in 1942 he gave a series of lectures on logic and its philosophy in Portuguese, subsequently published as the book O Sentido da Nova Lógica. The book has never before been fully translated into English, and this volume is the irst to make its content accessible to Anglophone philosophers. Quine would go on to develop revolutionary ideas about semantic holism and ontology, and this book provides a snapshot of his views on logic and language at a pivotal stage of his intellectual development. The volume also includes an essay on logic which Quine also published in Portuguese, together with an extensive historical-philosophical essay by Frederique Janssen-Lauret. The valuable and previously neglected works irst translated in this volume will be essential for scholars of twentieth-century philosophy. WALTER CARNIELLI is Professor of Philosophy of Logic and Foundations of Mathematics at the State University of Campinas. His publications include books on computability theory, modal logics, paraconsistent logics, and combinations of logics. FREDERIQUE JANSSEN-LAURET is a lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Manchester. She is co-editor of Quine and His Place in History (2015), and her work on Quine, logic, and ontology has appeared in Synthese and The Monist. WILLIAM PICKERING is a translator and editor of academic works in the areas of logic and linguistics, and holds a Ph. D. in linguistics from the State University of Campinas. He has lectured and published on the applications of complex systems theory in linguistics. Jacket illustration: Willard Van Orman Quine, 1946. Photograph courtesy of Dr. Douglas Boynton Quine and Ms. Margaret Quine McGovern. CONTENTS Acknowledgements Editors’ Introduction Walter Carnielli, Frederique Janssen-Lauret, and William Pickering Willard Van Orman Quine’s Philosophical Development in the 1930s and 1940s Frederique Janssen-Lauret The Signi icance of the New Logic Willard Van Orman Quine Prefaces and Contents Introduction I. The Theory of Composition II. Theory of Quantification III. Identity and Existence IV. Class, Relation, and Number List of Principles Most Often Referred to in the Text Definitions Bibliography Appendix. The United States and the Revival of Logic Willard Van Orman Quine. Notes Index printed in the united kingdom Jacket designed by Hart McLeod Ltd