Multimedia Collection
The Goldfarb Panel
(In Conversation: W.V. Quine series)
VHS
100 minutes
B945 .Q54 I55 1994 pt.3
Professor Warren Goldfarb is chairman of the philosophy department at Harvard University. He specializes in logic, history of logic and philosophy of mathematics and has translated and edited the Logical Writings of Jacques Herbrand. He has also co-authored with Burton Dreben The Decision Problem and Solvable Classes of Quantificational Formulae.
The program begins with a discussion of Professor Quine's early philosophical career at Harvard and considers his relationship with the logical positivists, most notably with Rudolf Carnap. This background sets the stage for a thorough discussion of Quine's naturalism, and in particular his naturalized epistemology. Questions about the famous "two dogmas" are raised, and attention is drawn to his doctrines of extensionalism and ontological relativity.
Distributed by Philosophy International, The London School of Economics (www.Ise.ac.uk/pi)
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