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This outstanding book combines a splendid overview of Quine's naturalism with a mastery of his archive. We get to see the ideas of Word and Object emerge and learn what mattered most to Quine in writing it. ... Verhaegh's book is indispensable. -- Richard Creath, President's Professor of Philosophy, Arizona State University A deeply informative and historically grounded guide to Quine's naturalism. By reconstructing the evolution of Quine's writing of Word and Object over a period of nearly twenty years (and providing a scholarly guide to the Quine archives), Verhaegh shows how Quine's numerous manuscripts and correspondence reveal the most important and difficult philosophical juncture points Quine had to face in writing his first major philosophical book. In the twists and turns of Quine's own struggles with articulating his philosophical thoughts, Verhaegh shows us much of the true depth, dynamism, and sophistication of Quine's thought. -- Juliet Floyd, Professor of Philosophy, Boston University This is an outstanding work. I agree with the main points, am grateful for them, and heartily applaud the sheer amount of work that has gone into it, philosophical as well as scholarly. I learned. Every Quine-scholar will have to read it and many students would be well-advised to read it also. -- Gary Kemp, Senior Lecturer of Philosophy, University of Glasgow

This is an outstanding work. I agree with the main points, am grateful for them, and heartily applaud the sheer amount of work that has gone into it, philosophical as well as scholarly. I learned. Every Quine-scholar will have to read it and many students would be well-advised to read it also. * Gary Kemp, Senior Lecturer of Philosophy, University of Glasgow * A deeply informative and historically grounded guide to Quine's naturalism. By reconstructing the evolution of Quine's writing of Word and Object over a period of nearly twenty years (and providing a scholarly guide to the Quine archives), Verhaegh shows how Quine's numerous manuscripts and correspondence reveal the most important and difficult philosophical juncture points Quine had to face in writing his first major philosophical book. In the twists and turns of Quine's own struggles with articulating his philosophical thoughts, Verhaegh shows us much of the true depth, dynamism, and sophistication of Quine's thought. * Juliet Floyd, Professor of Philosophy, Boston University * This outstanding book combines a splendid overview of Quine's naturalism with a mastery of his archive. We get to see the ideas of Word and Object emerge and learn what mattered most to Quine in writing it. ... Verhaegh's book is indispensable. * Richard Creath, President's Professor of Philosophy, Arizona State University *

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Sander Verhaegh is an assistant professor at the Tilburg Center for Logic, Ethics, and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS) at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. His work on Quine's philosophy has been published in, among others, the Journal of the History of Philosophy, Erkenntnis, Philosophers' Imprint, Synthese, the British Journal for the History of Philosophy, and the Australasian Journal of Philosophy. His study of Quine's archives has been funded by Houghton Library, Harvard University, and the Journal of the History of Philosophy.

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