The Cambridge Companion to QuineThe eleven essays in this volume cover all the central topics of W. V. Quine's philosophy. Quine (1908 2000) was perhaps the most distinguished analytic philosopher of the later half of the twentieth century. His celebrated attack on the analytic synthetic tradition heralded a major shift away from the views of language descended from logical positivism. His most important book, Word and Object, introduced the concept of indeterminacy of radical