Acknowledgements; List of contributors; Introduction Paolo Leonardi and Marco Santambrogio; 1. Pursuit of the concept of truth Donald Davidson; 2. A view from Elm Street Umberto Eco; 3. Quine on exile and acquiescence Barry Stroud; 4. In what sense is language public? Dagfinn Føllesdal; 5. Against naturalized epistemology Bas C. Van Fraassen; 6. Quine on the naturalizing of epistemology Roger Gibson; 7. Quine on physical objects Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara and Giuliano Toraldo di Francia; 8. The place of natural language James Higginbotham; 9. Quine's experiment with intensional objects and his existentialist quantified modal logic Hector-Neri Castañeda; 10. Transparency and specificity in intentional contexts Andrea Bonomi; 11. Quine and the attitudes Ernest Lepore and Barry Loewer; 12. Relational belief Nathan Salmon; 13. Referential opacity Fabrizio Mondadori; 14. On naming Paolo Leonardi and Ernesto Napoli; 15. Mathematical necessity reconsidered Hilary Putnam; 16. Quotational ambiguity George Boolos; 17. Quine and Gödel on analyticity Charles Parsons; 18. On Quine's approach to natural deduction Carlo Cellucci; 19. Skepticism about semantic facts Dirk Koppelberg; 20. Reactions W. V. Quine.