proposal is controversial among contemporary philosophers and has several critics, with Jaegwon Kim the most prominent among them. In popular culture A computer program whose output is its own source code is called a "quine" after Quine. This usage was introduced by Douglas Hofstadter in his 1979 book, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. Quine is a recurring character in the webcomic "Existential Comics". Quine was selected for inclusion in the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry's "Pantheon of Skeptics", which celebrates contributors to the cause of scientific skepticism. Quine was mentioned in the Peacock series A.P. Bio. Bibliography Selected books 1934 A System of Logistic. Harvard Univ. Press. 1951 (1940). Mathematical Logic. Harvard Univ. Press. . 1980 (1941). Elementary Logic. Harvard Univ. Press. . 1960 Word and Object. MIT Press; . The closest thing Quine wrote to a philosophical treatise. Ch. 2 sets out the indeterminacy of translation thesis. 1969 (1963). Set Theory and Its Logic. Harvard Univ. Press. 1966. Selected Logic Papers. New York: Random House. 1976 (1966). The Ways of Paradox. Harvard Univ. Press. 1969 Ontological Relativity and Other Essays. Columbia Univ. Press. . Contains chapters on ontological relativity, naturalized epistemology, and natural kinds. 1970 (2nd ed., 1978). With J. S. Ullian. The Web of Belief. New York: Random House. 1986 (1970). The Philosophy of Logic. Harvard Univ. Press. 1974 (1971). The Roots of Reference. Open Court Publishing Company (developed from Quine's Carus Lectures). 1981. Theories and Things. Harvard Univ. Press. 1985. The Time of My Life: An Autobiography. Cambridge, The MIT Press. . 1987. Quiddities: An Intermittently Philosophical Dictionary. Harvard Univ. Press. . A work of essays, many subtly humorous, for lay readers, very revealing of the breadth of his interests. 1992 (1990). Pursuit of Truth. Harvard Univ. Press. A short, lively synthesis of his thought for advanced students and general readers not fooled by its simplicity. . 1995. From Stimulus to Science. Harvard Univ. Press. . 2004. Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W V Quine. Harvard Univ. Press. 2008. Confessions of a Confirmed Extensionalist and Other Essays. Harvard Univ. Press. Important articles 1946, "Concatenation as a basis for arithmetic". Reprinted in his Selected Logic Papers. Harvard Univ. Press. 1948, "On What There Is", Review of Metaphysics 2(5) (JSTOR). Reprinted in his 1953 From a Logical Point of View. Harvard University Press. 1951, "Two Dogmas of Empiricism", The Philosophical Review 60: 20–43. Reprinted in his