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Willard Van Orman Quine is one of the most influential analytic philosophers of the latter half of the twentieth century. No serious student of modern analytic philosophy can afford to ignore Quine's work. Yet there is no doubt that it presents a considerable challenge. The book offers clear explication and analysis of Quine's writings and ideas in all those areas of philosophy to which he contributed (except technical matters in logic). Quine's work is set in its intellectual context, illuminating his connections to Russell, Carnap and logical positivism. Detailed attention is paid to...

Willard Van Orman Quine is one of the most influential analytic philosophers of the latter half of the twentieth century. No serious student of modern analytic philosophy can afford to ignore Quine's work. Yet there is no doubt that it presents a considerable challenge. The book offers clear explication and analysis of Quine's writings and ideas in all those areas of philosophy to which he contributed (except technical matters in logic). Quine's work is set in its intellectual context, illuminating his connections to Russell, Carnap and logical positivism. Detailed attention is paid to...

Pictorial representation is one of the core questions in aesthetics and philosophy of art. What is a picture? How do pictures represent and resemble things? This collection of specially commissioned chapters examines the influential argument that pictorial representation is about 'seeing-in', in particular as found in the work of Richard Wollheim.

We can see a passing cloud "as" a rabbit, but we also see a rabbit "in" the clouds. 'Seeing-in' is also an important imaginative act of the kind employed by Leonardo s pupils when he told them to see what they could for example, battle scenes...

• Draws on essays from well-known scholars, including Thomas Baldwin, Catherine Wilson, Adrian Moore and Lori Gruen
  
• Locates the authors and their oeuvre within the context of the discipline as a whole
  
• Considers how contemporary philosophy both draws from, and contributes to, the broader intellectual and...