Volume 32, Number 2 · February 14, 1985
Four Hot Questions in Philosophy
By W.V. Quine
Skepticism and Naturalism: Some Varieties (The Woodbridge Lectures 1983)
by P.F. Strawson
Columbia University Press, 98 pp., $17.50
If one man were to be singled out as personifying Oxford analytic philosophy over the past thirty years, Sir Peter would be that person. In these four lectures, which he delivered at Columbia University in 1983, he weighs issues in four traditional arenas of philosophical contention. In one arena the existence of external objects is at stake, in another the grounds of morality, in a third the status of mentalistic language, and in a fourth the existence of abstract objects.
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