First edition. 8vo. vi, 184 pp. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket (internally clean and unmarked; jacket price clipped with some minor shelf wear to extremities, spine panel slightly toned, short closed tear to head of front joint, uneven toning to front panel). Harvard University Press, 1953.
A collection of nine ‘logico-philosophical essays’, including Quine’s seminal essay ‘Two Dogmas of Empiricism’, often regarded as amongst the most important papers in twentieth-century analytic philosophy, a concentrated attack on logical positivism focusing on the distinction between analytic and synthetic propositions, with Quine advocating instead a form of semantic holism.
