Quine and the Limits of Analytical Philosophy

Quine and the Limits of Analytical Philosophy is a rigorous and conceptually ambitious exploration of one of the most transformative figures in 20th-century thought. Combining philosophical narrative, camera-presented lectures, and cinematic video essays, this course traces W. V.

O. Quine's intellectual legacy and the shockwaves his work continues to send across philosophy, linguistics, the theory of computation, cognitive science, and the social sciences. Taught and authored by Dr.

Lucas Ribeiro Vollet (Ph. D. , UFSC with a period abroad in Brown University; with publications in Husserl Studies, Cognitio, Peri, Kalagatos and others), this course is both a critical history of the analytic tradition and a conceptual re-evaluation of its epistemological and ontological commitments.

From Frege and Russell to Carnap, Tarski, and Wittgenstein, the course builds a genealogical structure that reveals how meaning became a battlefield, and how Quine, far from simply rejecting past paradigms, exposes their fragility from within. The course combines three types of materials:Camera-based introductions, where the instructor addresses the learner directly to frame and situate key arguments in contemporary discourse. Philosophical video essays, which blend high-level conceptual analysis with audio-visual composition, rhythm, and metaphor to enhance understanding.