Because he is America's most influential living philosopher, many of his concerns have become major concerns of his contemporaries. Quine has made many contributions to logic, but in his philosophical writings he focuses on meaning and existence - the age old concerns of philosopher-man - and he thus continues the traditions begun by the ancient Greeks. The last paper he presented was Three Networks: Similarity, Implication, and Membership in Boston (August 1998) it was published in Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy (#6). His ashes rest beside his parents' remains in the Glendale Cemetary, Akron, Ohio with portions scattered in Cambridge MA, Harvard MA, and Meriden CT (with his wife, Marjorie). Professor Quine was born J(anti-Christmas) and died Decem(Christmas). His style is not only eminently lucid but lively and elegant. His best known works include "The Ways of Paradox", "Mathematical Logic", "Set Theory and Its Logic", "Quiddities", and his most influential "Word and Object".
Over the last half century his literary output was prodigious in such areas as mathematical logic, set theory, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of logic. Home page for Willard Van Orman Quine, mathematician and philosopher who held the Edgar Pierce Chair of Philosophy at Harvard University from 1956-2000.
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