Editing Willard Van Orman Quine (section)

=== Personal ===
He had four children by two marriages.<ref name="mactutor" /> Guitarist [[Robert Quine]] was his nephew.

Quine was politically conservative, but the bulk of his writing was in technical areas of philosophy removed from direct political issues.<ref>''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', [http://www.wvquine.org/wvq-obit3.html obituary] for W. V. Quine – January 4, 2001</ref> He did, however, write in defense of several conservative positions: for example, he wrote in defense of [[moral censorship]];<ref>''Quiddities: An Intermittently Philosophical Dictionary'', entry for Tolerance (pp. 206–208).</ref> while, in his autobiography, he made some criticisms of American postwar academics.<ref>"Paradoxes of Plenty" in ''Theories and Things'', p. 197.</ref><ref>''The Time of My Life: An Autobiography'', pp. 352–353.</ref>