KnowraWillard Van Orman QuineLinked fromLinked fromThe 18 pages that link to Willard Van Orman Quine, each with the reason it gives.All 18Related 14Compared with 4Analytic philosophyRelated: His critiques unsettled assumptions that had shaped mid-century analytic philosophy.Thomas KuhnRelated: Quine’s account of theoretical holism provides a philosophical parallel to Kuhn’s framework-dependent science.Analytic–synthetic distinctionRelated: His critique challenged the idea that analytic truths have a clear, independent definition.A priori and a posterioriRelated: Quine questioned whether any truths are insulated from revision by experience.UnderdeterminationRelated: His work extended Duhem's point into a broad account of how evidence bears on theories.Daniel DennettRelated: Quine’s naturalistic philosophy influenced Dennett’s approach to mind and scientific explanation.Scientific naturalismRelated: His naturalized epistemology gave scientific inquiry a central role in studying knowledge.FallibilismRelated: His holistic view portrays even central beliefs as revisable under pressure from experience.Duhem–Quine thesisRelated: Quine extended a related holism from physical theory to knowledge more broadly.Metaphysical naturalismRelated: Quine argued that philosophy should operate within the scientific account of the world.Ad hoc hypothesisRelated: Quine’s holism helps explain how a theory can be preserved by altering surrounding assumptions.Identity of indiscernibles (metaphysics)Related: His approach to identity and predicates clarifies the assumptions needed to state the principle.New FoundationsRelated: Quine introduced New Foundations in 1937 as a revised approach to set theory.MetaphilosophyRelated: His naturalized epistemology directly recasts philosophy’s relation to empirical science.