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The Time of My Life: An Autobiography

by Willard Van Orman Quine

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Bradford Book
  • 16.4 x 22.9 x 3.4 cm

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"Some Pow'r did us the giftie grant/ To see oursels as others can't." With that play on Burns' famous line as a preface, Willard Van Orman Quine sets out to spin the yarn of his life so far. And it is a gift indeed to see one of the world's most famous philosophers as no one else has seen him before. To catch an intimate glimpse of his seminal and controversial theories of philosophy, logic, and language as they evolved, and to hear his warm and often amusing comments on famous contemporary philosophers. From his beginnings in Akron, Ohio in the early 1900s, Quine takes us on a tour of over 100 countries over three-quarters of a century, including close observations of the Depression and two world wars. Far from a philosophical tract, it is an ebullient, folksy account of a richly varied and rounded life. When he does dip into philosophy, it is generally of the armchair sort, and laced with a gentle good humor: "There is that which one wants to do for the glory of having done it, and there is that which one wants to do for the joy of doing it. One can want to be a scientist because he wants to see himself as a Darwin or an Einstein, and one can want to be a scientist because he is curious about what makes things tick.... In normal cases the two kinds of motivation are in time brought to terms.... In me the glory motive lingered...... In this book, Quine approaches the details of his life the way he has always approached them with a sharp sense of interest, adventure and fun. And he has a skill for picking a word that is just off-center enough to pull an ordinary event out of the humdrum of daily life and evoke its personal meaning. The result is a book of memories that is utterly mesmerizing. Willard Van Orman Quine is the author of numerous books, including Word and Object, published by The MIT Press in 1960. A Bradford Book.
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  • Author

    Willard Van Orman Quine

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Bradford Book

  • Published

    May 2000

  • Weight

    913g

  • Dimensions

    16.4 x 22.9 x 3.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9780262670043

  • ISBN-10

    0262670046

  • Eden Code

    4729862

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