This expanded edition of The Ways of Paradox includes papers that are among Prof
essor Quine's most important and influential, such as Truth by Convention, Carna
p and Logical Truth, On Carnap's Views on Ontology, The Scope and Language of Sc
ience, and Posits and Reality. Many of these essays deal with unresolved issues
of central interest to philosophers today. About half of them are addressed to a
wider public than philosophers.
The remainder are somewhat more professional
and technical. This new edition of The Ways of Paradox contains eight essays th
at appeared after publication of the first edition, and it retains the seminal e
ssays that must be read by anyone who seeks to master Quine's philosophy. Quine
has been characterized, in The New York Review of Books, as the most distinguish
ed American recruit to logical empiricism, probably the contemporary American ph
ilosopher most admired in the profession, and an original philosophical thinker
of the first rank.
