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Willard Van Orman Quine - English
URL: http://www.santafe.edu/~shalizi/notebooks/quine.html

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American logician and philosopher; perhaps the most eminent analytical philosopher now living; a student of Whitehead, and largely in the spirit of the Logical Positivists, with a good dose of pragmatism mixed in; teacher of Daniel Dennett.

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"Analayticity Reconsidered" by Paul Boghossian - English
URL: http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/boghossian/papers/AnalyticityReconsid

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Article by Paul Boghossian. "This is what many philosophers believe today about the analytic/synthetic distinction: In his classic early writings on analyticity -- in particular, in "Truth by Convention," "Two Dogmas of Empiricism," and "Carnap and Logical Truth" -- Quine showed that there can be no distinction between sentences that are true purely by virtue of their meaning and those that are not. In so doing, Quine devastated the philosophical programs that depend upon a notion of analyticity -- specifically, the linguistic theory of necessary truth, and the analytic theory of a priori knowledge."

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Indeterminacy of translation and the problem of explicating "meaning" - English
URL: http://www.hedweb.com/nickb/quine.htm

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What does Quine's thesis of indeterminacy of translation really say? How are we to make sense of it?

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Willard van Orman Quine home page by Douglas Boynton Quine - English
URL: http://users.aol.com/drquine/wv-quine.html

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"Quine has made many contributions to logic, but in his philosophical writings he focuses on meaning and existence - the age old concerns of philosopher-man - and he thus continues the traditions begun by the ancient Greeks. Because he is America's most influential living philosopher, many of his concerns have become major concerns of his contemporaries."

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Quine - English
URL: http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Quine.html

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Biography of Willard Van Quine (1908-0BC).

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