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The Ne Plus Ultra of Naturalism
from Part Two - The Late Modern Period I
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Introduction
From Carnap we proceed naturally to Quine. We can get a good sense of the extraordinarily high esteem in which Quine held Carnap from the homage to Carnap that Quine delivered at a memorial meeting shortly after Carnap’s death. In that homage Quine said:
Carnap is a towering figure. I see him as the dominant figure in philosophy from the 1930s onwards…. Some philosophers would assign this role rather to Wittgenstein; but many see the scene as I do. (‘Carnap’, p. 40)
Much of Quine’s own work can be seen as a direct response to Carnap’s. There were parts that he thoroughly espoused and parts that he just as thoroughly opposed, but all of it had a deep and lasting influence on his philosophical thinking.
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