This philosopher completed his doctorate at Harvard in 1932, becoming a full professor there in 1948.  
This philosopher completed his doctorate at Harvard in 1932, becoming a full professor there in 1948.  His argument that experience counts for or against our entire body of beliefs in a holistic manner, and that little that is systematic can be said about the meanings of particular sentences, was expounded in 1953's "Two Dogmas of Empiricism."  This lead to his most famous doctrine, the indeterminacy of translation, which holds that there are no objective facts about which words and sentences have the same meanings, put forth in 1960's Word and Object.  For 10 points, who is this most influential post-World War II American philosopher, author of Pursuit of Truth and The Roots of Reference?
This philosopher completed his doctorate at Harvard in 1932, becoming a full professor there in 1948.  
Willard Van Orman Quine