Download or read book Quine: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Gary Kemp and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-06-23 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willard Van Orman Quine is one of the most influential analytic philosophers of the latter half of the twentieth century. This work offers an analysis of his writings and ideas in those areas of philosophy to which he contributed. It sets his work in its intellectual context, illuminating his connections to Russell, Carnap and logical positivism.