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Willard Van Orman Quine

American philosopher and logician1908 to 2000

Wikidata names Alfred North Whitehead as doctoral advisor and lists 24 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 7 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata24

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The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 244 people: 244 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career5

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