Willard Van Orman Quine

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analytic philosopher human logician philosopher university teacher

Willard Van Orman Quine was a 20th-century American analytic philosopher and logician known for his work on ontological relativity, the indeterminacy of translation, and the critique of the analytic–synthetic distinction.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	analytic philosopher → human → logician → philosopher → university teacher →
birthDate	1908-06-25 →
birthPlace	Akron, Ohio, United States →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
deathDate	2000-12-25 →
deathPlace	Boston, Massachusetts, United States →
doctoralAdvisor	Alfred North Whitehead → Clarence Irving Lewis →
educatedAt	Harvard University → Oberlin College →
employer	Harvard University →
familyName	Quine →
fieldOfWork	epistemology → logic → metaphysics → philosophy → philosophy of language → philosophy of science →
fullName	Willard Van Orman Quine →
givenName	Willard →
influenced	Daniel Dennett → David Lewis → Donald Davidson → Hilary Putnam → Michael Dummett → Saul Kripke →
influencedBy	Bertrand Russell → David Hume → Gottlob Frege → John Dewey → Rudolf Carnap →
language	English →
memberOf	American Academy of Arts and Sciences → American Philosophical Association →
movement	analytic philosophy →
notableIdea	confirmation holism → critique of the analytic–synthetic distinction → indeterminacy of translation → naturalized epistemology → ontological commitment → ontological relativity → web of belief →
notableWork	From a Logical Point of View → Ontological Relativity and Other Essays → Word and Object → “On What There Is” → “Two Dogmas of Empiricism” →
workLocation	Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States →

Referenced by (32)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
From a Logical Point of View → From a Logical Point of View ("W.V.O. Quine") → On What There Is → On What There Is ("W. V. O. Quine") → Ontological Relativity and Other Essays → Ontological Relativity and Other Essays ("W.V.O. Quine") → Two Dogmas of Empiricism → Two Dogmas of Empiricism ("W. V. O. Quine") → Word and Object → Word and Object ("W.V.O. Quine") →	author
Bertrand Russell → Charles Sanders Peirce ("W. V. O. Quine") → Clarence Irving Lewis → Ludwig Wittgenstein ("W. V. O. Quine") → On Denoting ("W. V. O. Quine") → Rudolf Carnap ("W. V. O. Quine") → The Logical Syntax of Language ("W. V. O. Quine") → Two Dogmas of Empiricism ("Donald Davidson") →	influenced
identity of indiscernibles ("W. V. O. Quine") → logical atomism ("W.V.O. Quine") → logical positivism ("W. V. O. Quine") →	criticizedBy
David Lewis ("W. V. O. Quine") → Donald Davidson ("W. V. O. Quine") → Stephen Yablo ("W. V. O. Quine") →	influencedBy
David Lewis ("W. V. O. Quine") → Hilary Putnam →	doctoralAdvisor
analytic philosophy ("W. V. O. Quine") →	associatedWith
linguistic turn ("W. V. O. Quine") →	associatedWithPhilosopher
Ontological Relativity and Other Essays →	contributor
Willard Van Orman Quine ("Quine") →	familyName
Willard Van Orman Quine →	fullName
Naturalism ("W. V. O. Quine") →	isAssociatedWith