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Obituary

Willard V. Quine

by Paul O’Grady

Willard Van Orman Quine is regarded by many as the most significant philosopher to have written in English in the second half of the twentieth century. Born in Akron, Ohio, his parents of Dutch and Manx descent, he attended Oberlin College where he studied mathematics and philosophy. He graduated to Harvard, where he competed his PhD in a record two years on Russell and Whitehead’s Principia Mathematica, under Whitehead’s supervision. He was elected as one of the first group of research fellows of that institution (as was B.F.

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