Quine and His Place in History

Gary Ebbs, Indiana University, US.  Yemima Ben-Menahem, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Ann Lodge, Old Dominion University, US.  Rolfe A. Leary, USDA Forest Service, US.  Douglas B. Quine Robert Sinclair, Soka University, Tokyo.  Peter Hylton, University of Illinois, US.  Andrew Lugg, University of Ottawa, Canada.

Introduction Part I: PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED PAPERS BY W.V. QUINE 1. Introduction to 'Levels of Abstraction'; Douglas Quine 2. Levels of Abstraction (1972); W.V. Quine 3. Introduction to Two Previously Unpublished Papers by W. V. Quine; Gary Ebbs 4. Preestablished Harmony (1995); W.V. Quine 5. Response to Gary Ebbs (1995); W.V. Quine Part II: QUINE'S CONTACT WITH THE UNITY OF SCIENCE MOVEMENT: A GLIMPSE OF HIS FRIENSHIP WITH ED HASKELL 6. Observations on the Contribution of W. V. Quine to Unified Science Theory; Ann Lodge, Rolfe Leary and Douglas Quine Part III: QUINE'S CONNECTION WITH PRAGMATISM 7. The Web and the Tree: Quine and James on the Growth of Knowledge; Yemima Ben-Menahem 8. On Quine's Debt to Pragmatism: C.I. Lewis and the Pragmatic A Priori; Robert Sinclair Part III: UNDERSTANDING QUINE 9. Quine's Philosophies of Language; Peter Hylton 10. Reading Quine's Claim That No Statement Is Immune to Revision; Gary Ebbs 11. Meta-Ontology, Naturalism, and the Quine-Barcan Marcus Debate; Frederique Janssen-Lauret 12. Underdetermination, Realism, and Transcendental Metaphysics in Quine; Gary Kemp 13. Quine, Wittgenstein and 'the Abyss of the Transcendental'; Andrew Lugg