Willard Van Orman Quine

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According to Wikipedia, Willard Van Orman Quine was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition, recognized as "one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century". He served as the Edgar Pierce Chair of Philosophy at Harvard University from 1956 to 1978.

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Word and Object (1960) (7010)
The two dogmas of empiricism (1951) (3733)
From a Logical Point of View (1955) (2918)
Ontological Relativity and Other Essays (1969) (2349)
Main trends in recent philosophy: two dogmas of empiricism. (1951) (1730)
The Problem of Simplifying Truth Functions (1952) (896)
Philosophy of Logic (1988) (809)
Methods of Logic (1951) (660)
The ways of paradox, and other essays (1966) (650)
On What There Will Be (1948) (635)
A Way to Simplify Truth Functions (1955) (623)
The web of belief (1970) (528)
Theories and Things (1981) (520)
The Roots of Reference (1974) (493)
On empirically equivalent systems of the world (1975) (442)
The Pursuit of Truth (1990) (398)
On natural deduction (1950) (348)
From a Logical Point of View: 9 Logico-Philosophical Essays (1963) (341)
New Foundations for Mathematical Logic (1937) (340)
Steps toward a constructive nominalism (1947) (287)
Carnap and logical truth (1960) (256)
On the Reasons for Indeterminacy of Translation (1970) (255)
Set Theory and Its Logic. (1965) (243)
From Stimulus to Science (1995) (230)
Philosophy of mathematics: Truth by convention (1984) (201)
On Cores and Prime Implicants of Truth Functions (1959) (201)
Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis (1950) (196)
Designation and Existence (1939) (189)
Concatenation as a basis for arithmetic (1946) (183)
Ontology and ideology (1951) (160)
The problem of interpreting modal logic (1947) (158)
Notes on Existence and Necessity (1943) (154)
Methodological reflections on current linguistic theory (1970) (148)
Speaking of Objects (1957) (140)
Quiddities: An Intermittently Philosophical Dictionary (1987) (138)
Three Grades of Modal Involvment (1953) (125)
Indeterminacy of Translation Again (1987) (116)
On Mental Entities (1953) (106)
Structure and Nature (1992) (96)
Naturalism; Or, Living Within One's Means (2005) (93)
Whither Physical Objects (1976) (92)
Grades of Discriminability (1976) (87)
On Carnap's views on ontology (1951) (85)
Perspectives on Quine (1990) (82)
ON A SO-CALLED PARADOX (1953) (82)
Selected Logic Papers (1966) (81)
What Price Bivalence (1981) (79)
Philosophy of Logic: Second Edition (1986) (78)
PHILOSOPHICAL PROGRESS IN LANGUAGE THEORY (1970) (77)
Exchange between Donald Davidson and WV Quine following Davidson's lecture (1994) (75)
Ontological Reduction and the World of Numbers (1964) (74)
Mathematical Logic: Revised Edition (1982) (72)
On Carnap's Views on Ontology. (1955) (70)
Unification of universes in set theory (1956) (70)
In Praise of Observation Sentences (1993) (67)
Algebraic Logic and Predicate Functors (1971) (64)
The time of my life : an autobiography (1988) (64)
Progress On Two Fronts (1996) (61)
Meaning and Translation (1959) (60)
Quantification and the empty domain (1954) (60)
On Universals (1947) (57)
Whitehead and the Rise of Modern Logic (1942) (56)
Dear Carnap, Dear Van: The Quine-Carnap Correspondence and Related Work (1992) (54)
Russell's Ontological Development (1966) (54)
Reply to professor Marcus (1961) (52)
Word and object: An inquiry into the linguistic mechanisms of objective reference. (1960) (52)
Success and Limits of Mathematization (1983) (51)
Confessions of a Confirmed Extensionalist (2001) (49)
On the theory of types (1938) (49)
On simple theories of a complex world (2004) (48)
A Postscript on Metaphor (1978) (46)
Facts of the Matter (1978) (46)
I.—Mr. STRAWSON ON LOGICAL THEORY (1953) (45)
On Cantor's theorem (1937) (41)
A proof procedure for quantification theory (1955) (41)
I.—ON FREGE'S WAY OUT (1955) (36)
Ontology and Ideology Revisited (1983) (36)
On ordered pairs (1945) (33)
Relativism and Absolutism (1984) (32)
States of Mind (1985) (30)
Predicate functors revisited (1981) (29)
Reply to Stroud1 (1981) (28)
The inception of New Foundations (1993) (28)
Quine in Dialogue (2008) (27)
Elementary Logic (1965) (26)
Logic based on inclusion and abstraction (1937) (26)
Reply to D. A. Martin (1970) (26)
The Values of Variables in Dynamic Semantics (1995) (25)
Homage to Rudolf Carnap (1970) (24)
Reduction to a dyadic predicate (1954) (23)
ONTOLOGICAL REMARKS ON THE PROPOSITIONAL CALCULUS (1934) (23)
Set-theoretic foundations for logic (1936) (23)
Some theorems on definability and decidability (1952) (23)
Predicate-Functor Logics(*) (1971) (23)
Mathematics in Philosophy by Charles Parsons (1984) (22)
A System Of Logistic (1935) (22)
The time of my life (1985) (21)
Identify and Individuation (1972) (20)
On the logic of quantification (1945) (20)
Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W. V. Quine (2004) (20)
SOFT IMPEACHMENT DISOWNED (1980) (18)
Elimination of extra-logical postulates (1940) (18)
A Theory of Classes Presupposing no Canons of Type. (1936) (17)
Concepts of Negative Degree. (1936) (16)
On derivability (1937) (16)
Grammar, Truth, and Logic (1980) (16)
On a Suggestion of Katz (1967) (15)
A Comment on Grünbaum’s Claim (1976) (15)
Comments on newton-smith (1979) (15)
Immanence and Validity (1991) (14)
Toward a calculus of concepts (1936) (14)
Address: Existence and Quantification (1969) (14)
Mathematical Logic (1965) (13)
A comment on Agassi's remarks (1988) (13)
Elementary Logic: Revised Edition (1980) (12)
VAGARIES OF DEFINITION * (1973) (11)
Element and Number (1941) (11)
A Simplification of Games in Extensive Form. (1951) (11)
Definition of substitution (1936) (10)
Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce.--Volume IV: The Simplest Mathematics. Charles Hartshorne , Paul Weiss (1935) (10)
SELLARS ON BEHAVIORISM, LANGUAGE AND MEANING (1980) (10)
Completeness of the propositional calculus (1938) (10)
I, You, and It: An Epistemological Triangle (2000) (10)
The logic of sequences : a generalization of Principia mathematica (1990) (10)
Philosophical problems today (1994) (9)
Semantics and Abstract Objects (1951) (9)
A reinterpretation of Schönfinkel’s logical operators (1936) (9)
Review: Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, On the Notion of Existence. Some Remarks Connected with the Problem of Idealism (1952) (8)
On ω-inconsistency and a so-called axiom of infinity (1953) (7)
On an Application of Tarski's Theory of Truth. (1952) (7)
Review: Alonzo Church, A Formulation of the Simple Theory of Types (1940) (7)
Symposium: On What there is (1951) (7)
TABLE OF DEFINITIONS (1934) (7)
Conventional Logic and Modern Logic: A Prelude to Transition (1955) (6)
Three Networks: Similarity, Implication, and Membership (2000) (6)
Words and Object (1960) (5)
Replies to Eleven Essays (1981) (5)
The Flowering of Thought in Language (1997) (5)
On Not Learning to Quantify (1979) (4)
Promoting extensionality (2005) (4)
Review: Ruth C. Barcan, The Identity of Individuals in a Strict Functional Calculus of Second Order (1947) (4)
Comment on Donald Davidson (1974) (4)
Interpretations of sets of conditions (1954) (4)
Fermat's last theorem in combinatorial form (1988) (4)
ON THE AXIOM OF REDUCIBILITY (1936) (4)
Review: Peter Thomas Geach, Subject and Predicate (1951) (4)
Elements of Symbolic Logic (1948) (3)
Review: Ruth C. Barcan, The Deduction Theorem in a Functional Calculus of First Order Based on Strict Implication (1947) (3)
Decline and obsolescence of logical empiricism : Carnap vs. Quine and the critics (1996) (3)
Reply to Chihara (1981) (3)
A method of generating part of arithmetic without use of intuitive logic (1934) (3)
In Memory of Philipp Frank (1968) (3)
On the Consistency of "New Foundations". (1951) (3)
J. L. Austin: Comment (1965) (3)
Ajdukiewicz Kazimierz. On the notion of existence. Some remarks connected with the problem of idealism. Studia philosophica (Poznań), vol. 4 (for 1949–50, pub. 1951), pp. 7–22. (1952) (3)
On reduction to a symmetric relation (1952) (3)
Comment on Michael Dummett (1974) (3)
Bertrand Russell. An inquiry into meaning a truth . W. W. Norton a Company, New York1940; George Allen a Unwin, London 1940; 445 pp. (1941) (3)
A Theorem in the Calculus of Classes (1933) (3)
Alonzo Church. A formulation of the simple theory of types. The journal of symbolic logic , vol. 5 (1940), pp. 56–68. (1940) (3)
Paradoxes of Plenty. (1974) (2)
A basis for number theory in finite classes (1961) (2)
In Conversation. W.V. Quine (1994) (2)
On existence conditions for elements and classes (1942) (2)
The Ideas of Quine (1997) (2)
Burdick's attitudes (1982) (2)
On relations as coextensive with classes (1946) (2)
Free Logic, Description, and Virtual Classes (1997) (2)
Barcan Ruth C.. The identity of individuals in a strict functional calculus of second order. The journal of symbolic logic , vol. 12 (1947), pp. 12–15. (1947) (2)
The Foundations of Mathematics (1964) (2)
Logical Correspondence with Russell (1988) (2)
Abstracts of Comments (1970) (2)
Response to Leemon McHenry (1997) (2)
Elementary Proof That Some Angles Cannot Be Trisected by Ruler and Compass. (1990) (2)
Comment on W. S. Croddy's paper (1976) (1)
Two Dogmas of Empiricism (1951) (1)
The Quine Discussion (1997) (1)
Chwistek L. and Hetper W.. New foundation of formal metamathematics. The journal of symbolic logic, vol. 3 (1938), pp. 1–36. (1938) (1)
Alonzo Church. Schröder's anticipation of the simple theory of types. Preprinted for the members of the Fifth International Congress for the Unity of Science, Cambridge, Mass., 1939, as from The journal of unified science (Erkenntnis) , vol. 9; 4 pp. (1940) (1)
Review: Alan Rose, A Reduction in the Number of the Axioms of the Propositional Calculus (1950) (1)
Reply to Lycan and Pappas (1978) (1)
Reply to Professor Ushenko (1942) (1)
Review: Paul Bernays, A System of Axiomatic Set Theory--Part I (1938) (1)
Review: John R. Myhill, A Complete Theory of Natural, Rational, and Real Numbers (1951) (1)
Review: A. A. Fraenkel, The Relation of Equality in Deductive Systems (1949) (1)
A NOTE ON NICOD'S POSTULATE (1932) (1)
Kattsoff L. O.. Postulational methods. II. Philosophy of science , vol. 3 (1936), pp. 67–89. (1936) (1)
Barcan Ruth C.. A functional calculus of first order based on strict implication. The journal of symbolic logic , vol. 11 (1946), pp. 1–16. (1946) (1)
Philosophy of mathematics: Carnap and logical truth (1984) (1)
Review: Bertrand Russell, An Inquiry into Meaning & Truth (1941) (1)
Langford C. H.. A theorem on deducibility for second-order functions. The journal of symbolic logic, vol. 4 (1939), pp. 77–79. (1940) (0)
Review: L. Chwistek, W. Hetper, New Foundation of Formal Metamathematics (1938) (0)
Mora Jose Ferrater. Diccionario de filosofia. Third edition. Editorial Sudamericana, Buenos Aires 1951, 1047 pp. (1952) (0)
The Goldfarb Panel (1994) (0)
CHAPTER XIV. DESCRIPTIONS (1934) (0)
Review: N. A. Nikam, Quality and Relation (1938) (0)
Rosser Barkley. The independence of Quine's axioms *200 and *201. The journal of symbolic logic, vol. 6 (1941), pp. 96–97. (1941) (0)
On the Consistency of a Slight Modification of Quine's New Foundations (1975) (0)
Free logic, description, and virtual classes. Commentary (1997) (0)
On the Axiom of Reducibility. (1937) (0)
The Dennett Panel (1994) (0)
Review: John Myhill, Towards a Consistent Set-Theory (1951) (0)
Nominalismo presentata all'harvard philosophical colloquium, Emerson b, l'11 marzo 1946, ore 15.00 (2009) (0)
Review: Robert Feys, A Simple Notation for Relations (1950) (0)
Review Essay: Pursuit of Truth@@@Pursuit of Truth. (1992) (0)
Review: Gustav Bergmann, Conditions for an Extensional Elementaristic Language (1948) (0)
Review: Wilfrid Sellars, Concepts as Involving Laws and Inconceivable Without Them (1949) (0)
Bernays Paul. A system of axiomatic set theory—Part I. The journal of symbolic logic, vol. 2 (1937), pp. 65–77. See Errata, The journal of symbolic logic, vol. 2 (1937), p. iv. (1938) (0)
CHAPTER III. PROPOSITIONS (1934) (0)
A Theorem on Parametric Boolean Functions (1958) (0)
Review: Bertrand Russell, On Order in Time (1936) (0)
Fact and Existence Proceedings of the University of Western Ontario Philosophy Colloquium, November 1966. [By W.V. Quine and Others] Edited by Joseph Margolis (1969) (0)
Review: J. C. C. McKinsey, On the Generation of the Functions Cpq and Np of Lukasiewicz and Tarski by means of a Single Binary Operation (1937) (0)
The Dreben Panel (1994) (0)
McKinsey J. C. C.. A condition that a first Boolean function vanish wherever a second does not. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 43 (1937), pp. 694–696. (1938) (0)
Weinberg Julius Rudolph. An examination of logical positivism. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., London 1936; Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York 1936; vii+311 pp. (1937) (0)
Myhill John. Towards a consistent set-theory. The journal of symbolic logic, vol. 16 (1951), pp. 130–136. See Errata, ibid., p. iv. (1951) (0)
Methods of logic / Willard Van Orman Quine (1952) (0)
Review: B. Juhos, Negationsformen Empirischer Satze (1936) (0)
The Fogelin Panel (1994) (0)
Review: Julius Rudolph Weinberg, An Examination of Logical Positivism (1937) (0)
CHAPTER XI. EXTENSION OF THE GENERAL CALCULUS (1934) (0)
Carta de 1952-09-26 a José Ferrater Mora des de Massachusetts (Estats Units d'Amèrica) (2008) (0)
Quine on Linguistics--An"Interview" (2005) (0)
Review: Barkley Rosser, Constructibility as a Criterion for Existence (1936) (0)
Linsky Leonard. Some notes on Carnap's concept of inlensional isomorphism and the paradox of analysis. Philosophy of science , vol. 16 (1949), pp. 343–347. Carnap Rudolf. A reply to Leonard Linsky. Philosophy of science , vol. 16 (1949), pp. 347–350. (1950) (0)
CHAPTER V. RULES OF INFERENCE (1934) (0)
M. H. Stone. Note on formal logic. American journal of mathematics , vol. 59 (1937), pp. 506–514. (1937) (0)
Saarnio U.. Der Begriﬃ der Hierarchie und die logischen Paradoxien. Actes du Χme Congrès International de Philosophie (Amsterdam, 11–18 août, 1948)—Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Philosophy (Amsterdam, August 11–18, 1948) , North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam 1949, pp. 78 (1949) (0)
The Boolos Panel (1994) (0)
CHAPTER IV. CONGENERATION AND ABSTRACTION (1934) (0)
J. C. C. McKinsey. On the generation of the functions Cpq and Np of Lukasiewicz and Tarski by means of a single binary operation. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society , vol. 42 (1936), pp. 849–851. (1937) (0)
On formulas with valid cases (1956) (0)
Review: M. H. Stone, Note on Formal Logic (1937) (0)
CHAPTER I. ORDINATION (1934) (0)
The Tenability of Russell's Early Philosophy (1988) (0)
Fermat’s Last Theorem in Combinatorial Form (2009) (0)
Edward Vermilye Huntington 1874–1952 (1953) (0)
Review: Alonzo Church, Schroder's Anticipation of the Simple Theory of Types (1940) (0)
Barcan Ruth C.. The deduction theorem in a functional calculus of first order based on strict implication. The journal of symbolic logic, vol. 11 (1946), pp. 115–118. (1947) (0)
Fraenkel A. A.. The relation of equality in deductive systems. Actes du Χme Congrès International de Philosophie (Amsterdam, 11–18 août, 1948)—Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Philosophy (Amsterdam, August 11–18, 1948), North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam 1949, pp. 752–755. (1949) (0)
CHAPTER XVII. DERIVATIVE NOTIONS (1934) (0)
CHAPTER IX. UNIVERSALITY AND IMPLEXION (1934) (0)
The Davidson, Quine and Strawson Panel (1997) (0)
Review: J. C. C. McKinsey, A Condition that a first Boolean Function Vanish wherever a Second does not (1938) (0)
Eventos y reificación (1984) (0)
Notices (2001) (0)
The Block Panel (1994) (0)
Karl Menger. The new logic. Translated by H. B. Gottlieb and J. K. Senior. Philosophy of science , vol. 4 (1937), pp. 299–336. (1938) (0)
Review: L. O. Kattsoff, Postulational Methods. II (1936) (0)
Myhill John. Report on some investigations concerning the consistency of the axiom of reducibility. The journal of symbolic logic , vol. 16 (1951), pp. 35–42. (1951) (0)
Letter from W. V. Quine to Joshua Lederberg (1957) (0)
CHAPTER II. CLASSES AND TYPE (1934) (0)
CHAPTER VII. MATERIAL IMPLICATION (1934) (0)
論「有」是什麼 (1973) (0)
Review: Arthur Pap, A Note on Logic and Existence (1947) (0)
Review: Barkley Rosser, The Independence of Quine's Axioms $^\ast 200$ and $^\ast 201$ (1941) (0)
Barkley Rosser. Constructibility as a criterion for existence. The journal of symbolic logic , vol. 1 (1936), pp. 36–39. (1936) (0)
Thought and Language: The Flowering of Thought in Language (1998) (0)
Sellars Wilfrid. Concepts as involving laws and inconceivable without them. Philosophy of science , vol. 15 (1948), pp. 287–315. (1949) (0)
The Ideas of Quine Bryan Magee Talked to Willard van Orman Quine (1977) (0)
W.V. Quine, Immanuel Kant Lectures, translated and introduced by H.G. Callaway (2003) (0)
Review: David Garcia Baca, Introduction a la Logica Moderna (1936) (0)
Review: Karl Menger, H. B. Gottlieb, J. K. Senior, The New Logic (1938) (0)
Review: C. H. Langford, A Theorem on Deducibility for Second-Order Functions (1940) (0)
Indeterminacy of translation (1990) (0)
CHAPTER XVI. DOMAINS AND RELATIVE PRODUCTS (1934) (0)
John R. Myhill. A complete theory of natural, rational, and real numbers. The journal of symbolic logic , vol. 15 (1950), pp. 185–196. See Errata , ibid., p. iv. (1951) (0)
The Ordered Pair in Number Theory. (1951) (0)
CHAPTER XIII. INTRODUCTION TO RELATIONS (1934) (0)
Review: J. F. Thomson, A Note on Truth (1950) (0)
CHAPTER XV. UNITY (1934) (0)
CHAPTER XVIII. DEDUCIBILITY OF THE SYSTEM OF PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA (1934) (0)
CHAPTER Χ. EQUIVALENCE, DENIAL, AND CONJUNCTION (1934) (0)
Hirano Jirô. Einige Bermerkungen zum v. Neumannschen Axiomensystem der Mengenlehre. Proceedings of the Physico-mathematical Society of Japan, 3 s. vol. 19 (1937), pp. 1027–1045. (1938) (0)
Pap Arthub. A note on logic and existence. Mind, n. s. vol. 56 (1947), pp. 72–76. (1947) (0)
CHAPTER XII. THE PROPOSITIONAL CALCULUS AS A CALCULUS OF CLASSES (1934) (0)
Review: Leonard Linsky, Some Notes on Carnap's Concept of Intensional Isomorphism and the Paradox of Analysis; Rudolf Carnap, A Reply to Leonard Linsky (1950) (0)
CHAPTER VIII. INCLUSION AND IDENTITY (1934) (0)
Selected Correspondence with Geach (1991) (0)
Nikam N. A.. Quality and relation. The philosophical quarterly, vol. 12 (1936), pp. 105–118.Nikam N. A.. On the nature of relations. The philosophical quarterly, vol. 13 (1937), pp. 35–45. (1938) (0)
Introductory Note.Incomplete Symbols: Descriptions (1975) (0)

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