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W. V. Quine - Published Books and Translations

  • 1934. A System of Logistic. Cambridge: Harvard, xii + 204 pp.

  • 1940. Mathematical Logic. New York: Norton, xii + 344 pp. Book details, price, and availability from Amazon.comMathematical Logic
    • 1947 emended 2nd printing
    • 1951 2nd edition (Harvard University Press)
    • 1962 paperback (Harper Torchbook)
    • 1972 Spanish edition - "Lógica matemática" (Logica matematica)
    • 1974 Polish edition - "Logika matematyczna"
    • 1981 paperback (Harvard University Press)
    • 2007 Chinese edition paperback (China Renmin University Press - 6 volumes containing 14 books)

  • 1941. Elementary Logic. Boston: Ginn, vi + 170 pp. Book details, price, and availability from Amazon.comElementary Logic
    • 1965 paperback (Harper Torchbook)
    • 1966 revised edition (Harvard University Press)
    • 1968 Italian edition - "Logica Elementare"
    • 1972 French edition - "Logique Élémentaire"
    • 1972 Japanese edition
    • 1980 paperback (Harvard University Press)
    • 1980 revised edition with new preface
    • 1983 Spanish edition
    • 2006 French edition - "Logique Élémentaire"
    • 2020 Korean edition (scheduled for December 2020 by UX Review)

  • 1944. O Sentido da Nova Lógica. (Portuguese) São Paulo: Martins, xii + 190 pp. (O Sentido da Nova Logica)Book details, price, and availability from Amazon.comThe Significance of the New Logic
    • 1958 Spanish - "El sentido de la nueva lógica"
    • 1996 2nd edition - Portuguese (with new preface), Editora UFPR, Classicos
    • 2016 2nd edition - Portuguese (reprinted for the Newton Fund Conference on the Philosophies of the Mind, Language & Action, Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 19-23, 2016), Editora UFPR, Classicos
    • 2018 English ("The Significance of the New Logic" translation from Portuguese with additional material), Cambridge University Press

  • 1950. Methods of Logic. New York: Holt, xxii + 272 pp. Book details, price, and availability from Amazon.com
    • 1959 2nd edition
    • 1960 Italian edition - "Manuale di logica"
    • 1962 Japanese edition
    • 1962 Spanish edition - "Los métodos de la lógica" (Los metodos de la logica)
    • 1968 Hungarian edition - "A logika módszerei" (A logika modszerei)Methods of Logic
    • 1969 German edition - "Grundzüge der Logik" (Grundzuge der Logik)
    • 1972 3rd edition (Holt)
    • 1973 French edition 3rd edition - "Méthodes de logique" (Methodes de logique)
    • 1974 paperback (Routledge)
    • 1978 Japanese 3rd edition
    • 1979 Italian edition - "Manuale di logica"
    • 1981 Spanish 3rd edition - "Los métodos de la lógica" (Los metodos de la logica)
    • 1982 4th edition (Harvard University Press)
    • 1982 4th edition, paperback
    • 1993 Spanish 4th edition - "Los métodos de la lógica" (Los metodos de la logica)
    • 2007 Chinese 4th edition paperback (China Renmin University Press - 6 volumes containing 14 books)
    • (forthcoming 2022) Arabic edition (Manaa)

  • 1953. From a Logical Point of View (9 Logico-Philosophical Essays). Cambridge: Harvard, vii + 184 pp. Book details, price, and availability from Amazon.comFrom A Logical Point of View
    • 1961 2nd edition
    • 1963 Spanish edition hardcover - "Desde un punto de vista lógico" (Desde un punto de vista logico)
    • 1963 paperback (Harper Torchbook)
    • 1966 Italian edition - "Il problema del significato"
    • 1970 Polish edition - "Z punktu widzenia logiki"
    • 1972 Japanese edition
    • 1978 German edition - "Von einem logischen Standpunkt"
    • 1980 paperback (Harvard)
    • 1987 Chinese edition
    • 1992 Japanese edition
    • 1996 2nd edition, revised
    • 1996 Japanese 2nd edition
    • 2002 Spanish 2nd edition - "De5de un punt0 de v15t4 l061c0" by W1ll4rd V4n 0rm4n Qu1ne ("Desde un punto de vista lógico") (Desde un punto de vista logico) - illustrated on below on left
    • 2003 French - "Du point de vue logique"
    • ~2004 Italian edition - "Il problema del significato"
    • 2006 Slovak edition paperback - "Z logického hľadiska"
    • 2007 Chinese edition paperback (China Renmin University Press - 6 volumes containing 14 books)
    • 2007 Chinese edition paperback (China Renmin University Press - stand alone book)
    • 2009 Spanish 2nd edition - "De5de un punt0 de v15t4 l061c0" by W1ll4rd V4n 0rm4n Qu1ne ("Desde un punto de vista lógico") (renewal)
    • 2010 Portuguese edition paperback - "De um ponto de vista lógico"
    • 2010 Arabic edition paperback
    • 2011 German / English edition (3 of the 9 essays) - "Von einem logischen Standpunkt Aus"
    • 2011 Italian edition - "Il problema del significato" (renewal)
    • 2021 French (reissued) - "Du point de vue logique"
    • (forthcoming) Macedonian edition
    • (forthcoming 2018) Turkish edition
    • (forthcoming 2019) Portuguese edition (Fundacao Edition da UNESP)
    • (forthcoming 2022) Albanian edition (The Publishing House "Alphabet J&H")
    Contents
    1. On What There Is
    2. Two Dogmas of Empiricism
    3. The Problem of Meaning in Linguistics
    4. Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis
    5. New Foundations for Mathematical Logic
    6. Logic and the Reification of Universals
    7. Notes on the Theory of Reference
    8. Reference and Modality
    9. Meaning and Existential Inference

  • 1960. Word and Object. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Cambridge: MIT, xvi + 294 pp. Book details, price, and availability from Amazon.comWord and Object
    • 1964 paperback
    • 1968 Spanish edition - "palabra y objeto"
    • 1970 Italian edition - "Parola e oggetto"
    • 1978 French edition (hardcover) - "Le mot et la chose"
    • 1978 Portuguese edition
    • 1980 German edition - "Wort und Gegenstand"
    • 1984 Japanese edition
    • 1999 Polish edition - "Słowo i przedmiot" (Slowo i przedmiot)
    • 1999 French edition (paperback) - "Le mot et la chose"
    • 2005 Chinese edition (paperback)
    • 2007 Chinese edition paperback (China Renmin University Press - 6 volumes containing 14 books)
    • 2010 Portuguese edition - "Palavra e objeto"
    • 2013 new paperback edition Book details, price, and availability from Amazon.comWord and Object new edition:
      • foreword by Patricia Churchill
      • preface to the new edition by Dagfinn Føllesdal
    • (forthcoming) Romanian translation

  • 1963. Set Theory and Its Logic. Cambridge: Harvard, xvi + 359 pp. Book details, price, and availability from Amazon.com
    • 1968 Japanese edition
    • 1969 2nd edition
    • 1971 paperback (Harvard)
    • 1973 German edition (hard cover) - "Mengenlehre und ihre Logik"
    • 1978 German edition (paperback) - "Mengenlehre und ihre Logik"
    • 2007 Chinese revised edition paperback (China Renmin University Press - 6 volumes containing 14 books)

  • 1966. The Ways of Paradox and Other Essays. New York: Random House, x + 257 pp.
    Contents
    1. The Ways of Paradox
    2. On a Supposed Antinomy
    3. Foundations of Mathematics
    4. On the Application of Modern Logic
    5. Logic as a Source of Syntactical Insights
    6. Necessary Truth
    7. Ontological Remarks on the Propositional Calculus
    8. A Logistical Approach to the Ontological Problem
    9. Truth by Convention
    10. Carnap and Logical Truth
    11. On Carnap's Views on Ontology
    12. Mr. Strawson on Logical Theory
    13. Three Grades of Modal Involvement
    14. Reply to Professor Marcus
    15. Quantifiers and Propositional Attitudes
    16. Implicit Definition Sustained
    17. Ontological Reduction and the World of Numbers
    18. On Mental Entities
    19. The Scope and Language of Science
    20. Posits and Reality
    21. On Simple Theories of a Complex World
      (following essays in 2nd edition only)
    22. Homage to Rudolf Carnap
    23. Vagaries of Definition
    24. Linguistics and Philosophy
    25. The Limits of Knowledge
    26. On Multiplying Entities
    27. The Variable
    28. Algebriac Logic and Predicate Functors
    29. Truth and Disquotation
W. V. Quine Spanish From A Logical Point of View
  • 1966. Selected Logic Papers. New York: Random House, x + 250 pp. [essays 1 - 23: published 16 and 20 for the first time]
    Contents
    1. Whitehead and the Rise of Modern Logic
    2. Logic, Symbolic
    3. A Method of Generating Part of Arithmetic Without the Use of Intuitive Logic
    4. Definition of Substitution
    5. Concatenation as a Basis for Arithmetic
    6. Set-Theoretic Foundations for Logic
    7. Logic Based on Inclusion and Abstraction
    8. On Ordered Pairs and Relations
    9. On w-Inconsistency and a So-called Axiom of Infinity
    10. Element and Number
    11. On an Application of Tarski's Theory of Truth
    12. On Frege's Way Out
    13. Completeness of the Propositional Calculus
    14. On Cores and Prime Implicants of Truth Functions
    15. Two Theorems about Truth Functions
    16. On Boolean Functions
    17. On the Logic of Quantification
    18. A Proof Procedure for Quantification Theory
    19. Interpretations of Sets of Conditions
    20. Church's Theorem on the Decision Problem
    21. Quantification and the Empty Domain
    22. Reduction to a Dyadic Predicate
    23. Variables Explained Away
      (following essays in 2nd edition only)
    24. Truth, Paradox, and Gödel's Theorem
    25. Immanence and Validity
    26. MacHale on Boole
    27. Peirce's Logic
    28. Peano as Logician
    29. Free Logic, Description, and Virtual Classes
    30. The Inception of "New Foundations"
    31. Pythagorean Triples and Fermat's Last Theorem

  • 1969. Ontological Relativity and Other Essays. New York: Columbia, x + 165 pp. Book details, price, and availability from Amazon.comOntological Relativity
    • 1974 Spanish edition - "La relatividad ontológica y otros ensayos" (La relatividad ontologica y otros ensayos)
    • 1975 German edition - "Ontologische Relativität und andere Schriften" (Ontologische Relativitat und andere Schriften)
    • 1975 Portuguese edition
    • 1977 paperback
    • 1977 French edition - "Relativité de l'ontologie et (quelques) autres essais"
    • 1986 Italian edition - "La Relativita' Ontologica e Altri Saggi"
    • 1986 Spanish 2nd edition - "La relatividad ontológica y otros ensayos" (La relatividad ontologica y otros ensayos)
    • 2002 Spanish 2nd edition (reprinted) - "La relatividad ontológica y otros ensayos" (La relatividad ontologica y otros ensayos)
    • 2003 German edition - "Ontologische Relativität und andere Schriften" (Ontologische Relativitat und andere Schriften)
    • 2007 Chinese edition paperback (China Renmin University Press - 6 volumes containing 14 books)
    Contents
    1. Speaking of Objects
    2. Ontological Relativity
    3. Epistemology Naturalized
    4. Existence and Quantification
    5. Natural Kinds
    6. Propositional Objects

  • 1970. The Web of Belief. (with J.S. Ullian) New York: Random House, v + 95 pp. Book details, price, and availability from Amazon.com
    • 1978 2nd edition
    • 1984 (?) Korean edition
    • 2007 Chinese edition paperback (China Renmin University Press - 6 volumes containing 14 books)

  • 1970. Philosophy of Logic. Englewood: Prentice Hall, xv + 109 pp. Book details, price, and availability from Amazon.comPhilosophy of Logic
    • 1970 paperback
    • 1972 Portuguese edition - "Filosofia da Lógica" (Filosofia da Logica)
    • 1972 Japanese edition
    • 1973 Spanish edition - "Filosofía de la lógica" (Filosofia de la logica)
    • 1973 German edition - "Philosophie der Logik"
    • 1975 French edition - "Philosophie de la logique"
    • 1977 Polish edition - "Filozofia logiki"
    • 1981 Italian edition - "Logica e grammatica"
    • 1986 2nd edition (Harvard University Press)
    • 1993 Greek edition - "Filosofia ths Logikhs"
    • ~2003 Polish edition - "Filozofia logiki"
    • 2005 German edition - "Philosophie der Logik"
    • 2007 Chinese 2nd edition paperback (China Renmin University Press - 6 volumes containing 14 books)

  • 1971. Algebraic Logic and Predicate Functors. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 25 pp. (pamphlet) [reprinted in W. V. Quine's The Ways of Paradox, 2nd edition]

  • 1974. The Roots of Reference. La Salle, Ill: Open Court, xii + 151 pp. Book details, price, and availability from Amazon.com
    • 1976 German edition - "Die Wurzeln der Referenz"
    • 1977 Spanish edition - "Las raíces de la referencia" (Las raices de la referencia)
    • 2007 Chinese edition paperback (China Renmin University Press - 6 volumes containing 14 books)

  • 1981. Theories and Things. Cambridge: Harvard, xii + 219 Book details, price, and availability from Amazon.comPhilosophy of Logic
    • 1985 German edition (hardcover) - "Theorien und Dinge"
    • 1986 Spanish edition - "Teorías y Cosas" (Teorias y Cosas)
    • 1991 German edition (paperback) - "Theorien und Dinge"
    • 2007 Chinese edition paperback (China Renmin University Press - 6 volumes containing 14 books)
    Contents
    1. Things and Their Places in Theories
    2. Empirical Content
    3. What Price Bivalence?
    4. On the Very Idea of a Third Dogma
    5. Use and Its Place in Meaning
    6. On the Nature of Moral Values
    7. Five Milestones of Empiricism
    8. Russell's Ontological Development
    9. On Austin's Method
    10. Smart's Philosophy and Scientific Realism
    11. Goodman's Ways of Worldmaking
    12. On the Individuation of Attributes
    13. Intensions Revisited
    14. World's Away
    15. Grades of Discriminability
    16. Lewis Carroll's Logic
    17. Kurt Godel
    18. Success and Limits of Mathematization
    19. On the Limits of Decision
    20. Predicates, Terms, and Classes
    21. Responses (to Kripke, Maxwell, Yourgrau, Cresswell, Armstrong, Schuldenfrei)
    22. Postscript on Metaphor
    23. Has Philosophy Lost Contact with People?
    24. Paradoxes of Plenty
    25. The Times Atlas
    26. Mencken's American Language

W. V. Quine Japanese Quiddities
  • 1981. Saggi Filosofici 1970-1981. M. Leonelli (editor), Roma: Armando, 238 pp. (Quine essays collected and translated into Italian)

  • 1985. The Time of My Life: An Autobiography. Cambridge: MIT, xii + 539 pp. W. V. Quine autobiography book coverBook details, price, and availability from Amazon.com
    Time of My Life corrections
    • 2000 English, paperback edition
    • (uncertain) Chinese edition

  • 1987. Quiddities: An Intermittently Philosophical Dictionary. Cambridge: Harvard, x + 249 pp.
    • 1989 Dutch edition - "Quintessenties: Een bij vlagen filosofisch abc"
    • 1989 Italian edition - "Quidditates: Quasi un dizionario filosofico"
    • 1992 French edition - "Quiddités: Dictionnaire philosophique par intermittente"
    • 1994 Japanese edition (illustrated to left)
    • 1996 Polish edition - "Różności: Słownik prawie filozoficzny" (Roznosci: Slownik prawie filozoficzny)
    • 2007 Chinese edition paperback (China Renmin University Press - 6 volumes containing 14 books)
    • 2007 Japanese edition (Chikuma Shobo Publishing Co)
    • 2008 Czech edition - "CoViTOsTi" (Mladá fronta)

    Some people find the short essays on various topics in Quiddities a good starting point to appreciate Quine's writing. I've underlined some that might prove most accessible to the layman. [I welcome suggestions and corrections.]
    Contents (each row starts with a different letter; within rows, individual essays are separated by "...")QuidditiesBook details, price, and availability from Amazon.com
    • Alphabet ... Altruism ... Anomaly ... Artificial Languages ... Atoms
    • Beauty ... Belief (a family favorite)
    • Classes versus Properties ... Classes versus Sets ... Communication ... Complex Numbers ... Consonant Clusters ... Constructivism ... Copula ... Creation
    • Decimals and Dimidials ... Definition ... Discreteness
    • Etymology ... Euphemism ... Excluded Middle ... Extravagance
    • Fermat's Last Theorem ... Formalism ... Freedom ... Free Will ... Functions ... Future
    • Gambling ... Gender ... Gödel's Theorem
    • Ideas ... Identity ... Idiotisms ... Impredicativity ... Infinite Numbers ... Inflection ... Information
    • Kinship of Words ... Knowledge
    • Language Drift ... Language Reform ... Latin Pronunciation ... Lines ... Longitude and Latitude (a family favorite)
    • Marks ... Mathematosis ... Meaning ... Mind versus Body ... Misling (a family favorite)
    • Natural Numbers ... Necessity ... Negation
    • Paradoxes ... Phonemes ... Plurals ... Predicate Logic ... Prediction ... Prefixes ... Prizes ... Pronounciation
    • Real Numbers ... Recursion ... Redundancy ... Reference, Reification ... Rhetoric
    • Semantic Switch ... Senses of Words ... Singular Terms ... Space-Time ... Syntax
    • Things ... Tolerance ... Trinity ... Truth ... Type versus Token
    • Units ... Universal Library ... Universals ... Usage and Abusage ... Use versus Mention
    • Variables
    • Zero

  • 1987. La Scienza e i Dati di Senso. (Italian) Rome: Armando, 140 pp.
    ["Science and Sensibilia" - Immanuel Kant lectures, Stanford University, 1980 - not published in English]
W. V. Quine Japanese Pursuit of Truth
  • 1990. Pursuit of Truth. Cambridge: Harvard, xii + 113 pp. Book details, price, and availability from Amazon.comPursuit of Truth
    • 1992 2nd edition
    • 1993 Spanish edition - "La Búsqueda de la Verdad" (La Busqueda de la Verdad)
    • 1993 French edition "La Poursuite de la vérité" (La Poursuite de la verite")
    • 1993 Swedish edition - "Strävan efter sanning" (Stravan efter sanning)
    • 1995 Czech (revised) edition - "Hledání pravdy" (Hledani pravdy)
    • 1995 German edition - "Unterwegs zur Wahrheit"
    • 1997 Polish edition - "Na tropach prawdy"
    • 1999 Japanese edition (illustrated to left)
    • 1999 Chinese edition
    • 2007 Chinese edition paperback (China Renmin University Press - 6 volumes containing 14 books)
    • 2012 Audiobook (English) revised edition (Redwood Audiobooks)
    • 2020 German edition (new edition) - "Unterwegs zur Wahrheit"
    • (forthcoming 2022) Turkish edition (Dergah Yayinlari A.S.)

  • 1990. The Logic of Sequences: A Generalization of Principia Mathematica (Harvard Dissertations in Philosophy).: Garland, x + 290 pp. Book details, price, and availability from Amazon.com

  • 1991. Dear Carnap, Dear Van: The Quine Carnap Correspondence and Related Work. (with Rudolf Carnap, editor): University of California Press Book details, price, and availability from Amazon.com

  • 1995. From Stimulus to Science. Cambridge: Harvard, x + 114 pp. Book details, price, and availability from Amazon.comFrom Stimulus to Science
    • 1996 Catalan edition - "De l'estímul a la ciència" (De l'estimul a la ciencia)
    • 1998 Polish edition - "Od bodźca do nauki" (Od bodzca da nauki)
    • 1998 Spanish edition - "Del estímulo a la ciencia" (Del estimulo a la ciencia)
    • 2001 Italian edition - "Dallo stimolo alla scienza"
    • 2002 Czech edition - "Od stimulu k vědě" (Od stimulu k vede)
    • 2007 Chinese edition paperback (China Renmin University Press - 6 volumes containing 14 books)
    • ~ 2022 Arabic edition paperback (Book Club Publications)

  • 2001. Acerca del conocimiento científico y otros dogmas. (introducción de Francisco Rodríguez Consuegra). Barcelona: I.C.E. de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (in Spanish) [ISBN: 84-493-1129-2]
    Contents (titles from original English language journal or book publication)
    1. Facts of the Matter (1977)
    2. On Empirically Equivalent Systems of the World (1975)
    3. Three Indeterminacies (1990)
    4. Two Dogmas in Retrospect (1991)
    5. In Praise of Observation Sentences (1993)
    6. Naturalism; Or, Living Within One's Means (1995)
W. V. Quine Quintessence book cover
  • 2004. Quintessence - Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W. V. Quine. (Roger Gibson, editor), Cambridge: Belknap Press, Harvard University, 384 pp. (May, 2004). Book details, price, and availability from Amazon.com Thirty five of Quine's classic essays on analyticity and reductionism; the indeterminacy of translation of theoretical sentences and the inscrutability of reference; ontology; naturalized epistemology; philosophy of mind; and extensionalism.
    • Analyticity and Reductionism
      • Truth by Convention
      • Two Dogmas of Empiricism
      • Two Dogmas in Retrospect
      • Carnap and Logical Truth
    • Indeterminacy and Inscrutability
      • Speaking of Objects
      • Reference
      • Translation and Meaning
      • Progress on Two Fronts
    • Ontology
      • On What There Is
      • The Scope and Language of Science
      • On Simple Theories of a Complex World
      • Ontic Decision
      • Things and Their Places in Theories
      • On Carnap's Views on Ontology
    • Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind
      • Epistemology Naturalized
      • Naturalism; or, Living within One's Means
      • The Nature of Natural Knowledge
      • Five Milestones of Empiricism
      • On Mental Entities
      • Mind and Verbal Dispositions
    • Extensionalism
      • Confessions of a Confirmed Extensionalist
      • Quantifiers and Propositional Attitudes
      • Intensions Revisited
      • Reference and Modality
      • Three Grades of Modal Involvement

  • 2006. Vybrané clánky k ontologii a epistemologii. (Ludmila Dostálová and Tomáš Marvan, editors) Pilsen: ZCU (University of West Bohemia). 152 pp. (in Czech) (Selected Papers in Ontology and Epistemology) [ISBN: 80-7043-510-0]
    Contents (titles from original English language journal or book publication)
    1. Konstanty Quinovy filosofie (introduction) by Tomáš Marvan
    2. On What There Is (1948)
    3. Things and Their Places in Theories (1981)
    4. Two Dogmas of Empiricism (1953)
    5. Two Dogmas in Retrospect (1991)
    6. Epistemology Naturalized (1969)
    7. The Nature of Natural Knowledge (1975)
      Chinese langauge Quine books
  • 2007. Fourteen books by Quine translated into Chinese (simplified) language editions were published by the China Renmin University Press (ISBN 978-7-300-07786-4) in April, 2007. The 6 paperback volumes are illustrated on the right. They include:
    • volume 1: Mathematical Logic
    • volume 2: Methods of Logic, Ontological Relativity and Other Essays
    • volume 3: Set Theory and Its Logic, Philosophy of Logic
    • volume 4: From a Logical Point of View, Word and Object, The Roots of Reference
    • volume 5: The Ways of Paradox and Other Essays, The Web of Belief
    • volume 6: Theories and Things, Quiddities, Pursuit of Truth, From Stimulus to Science.

  • 2008. Confessions of a Confirmed Extensionalist cover Confessions of a Confirmed Extensionalist and Other Essays (Dagfinn Føllesdal & Douglas B. Quine, editors), Cambridge: Belknap Press, Harvard University, xi + 521 pp. (Oct. 2008). Book details, price, and availability from Amazon.com
    Confessions of a Confirmed Extensionalist corrections
    Introduction
    I. Previously Unpublished Articles (*)
    1. Nominalism (1946*)
    2. On the Notion of an Analytic Statement (1946*)
    3. Lectures on David Hume’s Philosophy (1946*)
    4. The Importance of Logic for Philosophy (1947*)
    5. Where is Logic Going? (1947*)
    6. Animadversions on the Notion of Meaning (1949*)
    7. The Entangled Philosophies of Mathematics (1950*)
    8. Meaning (1959*)
    9. The Way The World Is (1986*)
    10. Pressing Extensionality (1992*)
    11. Innate Foundational Endowments (1996*)
    12. The Growth of Mind and Language (1997*)
    II. Previously Published Articles
    1. Relations and Reason (1939)
    2. On the Reasons for Indeterminacy of Translation (1970)
    3. Methodological Reflections on Current Linguistic Theory (1970)
    4. On Empirically Equivalent Systems of the World (1975)
    5. Mind and Verbal Dispositions (1975)
    6. The Nature of Natural Knowledge (1975)
    7. Facts of the Matter (1977)
    8. Cognitive Meaning (1979)
    9. Grammar, Truth, and Logic (1980)
    10. Ontology and Ideology Revisited (1983)
    11. Relativism and Absolutism (1984)
    12. States of Mind (1985)
    13. The Sensory Support of Science (1986)
    14. Panel on Reference (1986)
    15. Indeterminacy of Translation Again (1987)
    16. Mind, Brain, and Behavior (1989)
    17. The Elusiveness of Reference (1990)
    18. The Phoneme’s Long Shadow (1990)
    19. Three Indeterminacies (1990)
    20. Preface to The Logic of Sequences (1990)
    21. Two Dogmas in Retrospect (1991)
    22. Structure and Nature (1992)
    23. Commensurability and the Alien Mind (1992)
    24. In Praise of Observation Sentences (1993)
    25. Truth (1994)
    26. Promoting Extensionality (1994)
    27. Indeterminacy Without Tears (1994)
    28. Assuming Objects (1994)
    29. Naturalism; Or, Living within One’s Means (1995)
    30. Progress on Two Fronts (1996)
    31. The Flowering of Thought in Language (1997)
    32. I, You, and It: an Epistemological Triangle (1999)
    33. Three Networks: Similarity, Implication, and Membership (2000)
    34. Confessions of a Confirmed Extensionalist (2001)

  • 2008. Quine in Dialogue Quine in Dialogue cover (Dagfinn Føllesdal & Douglas B. Quine, editors), Cambridge: Belknap Press, Harvard University, xi + 378 pp. (Oct. 2008). Book details, price, and availability from Amazon.com
    Quine in Dialogue corrections
    Introduction
    I. Interviews
    1. The Ideas of Quine (1978)
    2. Willard Van Orman Quine (1985)
    3. Quine Speaks His Mind (1988)
    4. Philosophy (1993)
    5. W. V. Quine: Perspectives on Logic, Science and Philosophy (1994)
    6. Twentieth-Century Logic (1994)
    7. Interview with Quine (1994)
    8. There Is Always a Further Step (1998)
    II. Quine on Other Philosophers
    -- Correspondence
    1. Logical Correspondence with Russell (1937-1967)
    -- Articles on Other Philosophers
    1. Thoughts on Reading Father Owens (1967)
    2. Carnap's Positivistic Travail (1984)
    3. Events and Reification (1985)
    4. Carnap (1987)
    5. Charles Sanders Peirce (1989)
    6. Let Me Accentuate the Positive (1990)
    7. Exchange between Davidson and Quine (1994)
    8. Foreword in Kurt Gödel (1994)
    9. Where Do We Disagree? (1999)
    -- Reviews
    1. Review of Rudolf Carnap's Logische Syntax der Sprache (1935)
    2. Review of Jeffreys' Scientific Inference (1937)
    3. Review of Goodman's Structure of Appearance (1951)
    4. Review of Geach's Reference and Generality (1964)
    5. Review of Lakatos' Proofs and Refutations (1977)
    6. Review of Bickerton, Roots of Language (1983)
    7. Review of Parsons' Mathematics in Philosophy (1984)
    8. Four Hot Questions in Philosophy: PF. Strawson. Skepticism & Naturalism (1985)
    -- Responses
    1. Replies to Professor Riska's Eight Questions (1992)
    2. Comment on "Carnap and Quine" by Neil Tennant (1994)
    3. Responses (1994)
    4. Reactions (1995)
    5. Responses to seven essays (1997)
    6. Response to Leemon McHenry (1997)
    7. Quine's responses (1999)
    III. Popular Pieces (Previously Unpublished: *)
    1. Introducing Piaget (1960*)
    2. Mind-Body Problem (1963*)
    3. Magna Carta (1963)
    4. On the Map (1964)
    5. Charting the World (1965)
    6. Words Enough (1969)
    7. Skinner Retirement Party (1974*)
    8. A Letter to Mr. Ostermann (1975)
    9. Farewell Thanks at Villa Serbelloni, Italy (1975*)
    10. Introducing Church (1975*)
    11. Introducing Dummett (1976*)
    12. Introducing Campbell (1977*)
    13. Knights and Knaves on: Smullyan. What is the Name of this Book? (1978)
    14. Gail Caldwell Stine Memorial Lecture (1980*)
    15. What I Believe (1984)
    16. Sticks and Stones; or, the Ins and Outs of Existence (1984)
    17. Introducing Kripke (1984*)
    18. Van Heijenort Memorial (1986*)
    19. Books That Mattered to Me (1986)
    20. To a Graduate Student in Philosophy (1988)
    21. Life is Agid (1988)
    22. Philosopher's Concern with Language (Words Are All We Have to Go On) (1992)
    23. Hobbling the Hawkers (1992)
    24. Introducing Shepard (1994*)
    25. In Memory of John Finley (1995*)
    26. Willard Van Orman Quine in "Dictionary of Philosophy" (1996)
    27. Kyoto Acceptance Speech (1996)
    28. Tidy Parsimony (1996)
    29. Advice to the Next Generation (2002)
    30. Farewell to Me (1978*)

  • 2019. Science and Sensibilia Science and Sensibilia: The 1980 Immanuel Kant Lectures (History of Analytic Philosophy) (Robert Sinclair, editor with additional essays by Gary Kemp, Gary Ebbs, Paul A.Gregory, Sander Verhaegh, Frederique Janssen-Lauret), Switzerland: Palgrave, MacMillan, ix + 210 pp. Book details, price, and availability from Amazon.com

W. V. Quine - Translation Languages (and number of different books)

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  5. Czech (3)
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  7. English (from Portuguese) (1)
  8. French (9)
  9. German (9)
  10. Greek (1)
  11. Hungarian (1)
  12. Italian (11)
  13. Japanese (8)
  14. Korean (forthcoming and uncertain)
  15. Macedonian (forthcoming)
  16. Polish (8)
  17. Portuguese (4)
  18. Romanian (forthcoming)
  19. Slovak (1)
  20. Spanish (11)
  21. Swedish (1)
  22. Turkish (uncertain and forthcoming)

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