Willard van Orman Quine (Akron, Ohio, 1908 - Boston, Massachusetts, 2000), philosopher of logic, he began studying mathematics at Oberlin College, Harvard University in Prague with Rudolf Carnap. Although he began his career devoted to the technical aspects of logic as the basis of philosophy, his later work focused on more general philosophical issues in the context of systematic linguistics. In 1932 he was Master of Arts and a doctorate in philosophy at Harvard. Reader, Professor and holder of the Edgar Pierce Chair of Philosophy, also at Harvard from 1936 to 1978. President of the American Philosophical Association in 1951 and the Association for Symbolic Logic from 1953 to 1955. His literary output in the second half of the twentieth century was instrumental in the areas of mathematical logic, philosophy of language and philosophy of logic. His most important works were The Ways of Paradox, Mathematical Logic, Set Theory and Its Logic, quiddities and probably most important, Word and Object. He died on December 25, 2000.