Editing Willard Van Orman Quine (section)

=== Harvard ===
At Harvard, Quine helped supervise the Harvard [[graduate theses]] of, among others, [[David Lewis (philosopher)|David Lewis]], [[Gilbert Harman]], [[Dagfinn Føllesdal]], [[Hao Wang (academic)|Hao Wang]], [[Hugues LeBlanc]], [[Henry Hiz]] and [[George Myro]]. For the academic year 1964–1965, Quine was a fellow on the faculty in the Center for Advanced Studies at [[Wesleyan University]].<ref>[http://www.wesleyan.edu/libr/schome/FAs/ce1000-137.html "Guide to the Center for Advanced Studies Records, 1958–1969"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314083709/http://www.wesleyan.edu/libr/schome/FAs/ce1000-137.html |date=March 14, 2017 }}. Weselyan University. Wesleyan.edu. Accessed March 8, 2010.</ref> In 1980
Quine received an [[Honorary degree|honorary doctorate]] from the Faculty of Humanities at [[Uppsala University]], Sweden.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/traditions/prizes/honorary-doctorates/ |title = Honorary doctorates – Uppsala University, Sweden| date=June 9, 2023 }}</ref>

Quine's student Dagfinn Føllesdal noted that Quine suffered from memory loss towards his final years. The deterioration of his short-term memory was so severe that he struggled to continue following arguments. Quine also had considerable difficulty in his project to make the desired revisions to ''Word and Object''. Before passing away, Quine noted to [[Morton White]]: "I do not remember what my illness is called, Althusser or [[Alzheimer]], but since I cannot remember it, it must be Alzheimer." He died from the illness on Christmas Day in 2000.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Quine |first=Willard Van Orman |url=https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/3991/word-and-object |title=Word and Object |date=2013 |publisher=The MIT Press |isbn=978-0-262-31279-0 |language=en |doi=10.7551/mitpress/9636.001.0001}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-dec-31-me-6890-story.html | title=Willard van Orman Quine; Renowned Philosopher | website=[[Los Angeles Times]] | date=December 31, 2000 }}</ref>