Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Willard Van Orman Quine (June 25, 1908 – December 25, 2000) (known to intimates as Van) was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition. From 1930 until his death 70 years later, Quine was continuously affiliated with Harvard University in one way or another, first as a student, then as a professor of philosophy and a teacher of mathematics, and finally as an emeritus elder statesman who published or revised seven books in retirement. He filled the Edgar Pierce Chair of Philosophy at Harvard, 1956–78.