COUNTRY (at the time) ................. TOTAL DURATION; YEAR(S) OF VISITS
- Albania ........................................... minutes; 1932
- Andorra .......................................... 5 days, 1950
- Antigua & Barbuda ........................ 12 hours, 1942
- Australia ......................................... 15 days, 1959
- Austria ............................................ 159 days, 1929, 1932, 1933, 1954, 1968
- Bahamas (the) ................................. 15 days, 1971
- Belgium .......................................... 22 days, 1929, 1950, 1953, 1968, 1979
- Belize (British Honduras) ................. minutes, 1976
- Bermuda ......................................... 3 days, 1971
- Bolivia ............................................ 5 days, 1956
- Botswana ........................................ 2 days, 1980
- Brazil .............................................. 108 days, 1942
- British Lesser Antilles ...................... 8 hours, 1967
- Bulgaria .......................................... 5 days, 1932
- Cambodia ........................................ 1 day, 1959
- Canada ............................................ 58 days, 1914 .... 1992
- Cape Verde ......................................1.5 hours, 1980
- Chile ............................................... 10 days, 1942, 1956
- Colombia .........................................13 days, 1942, 1956, 1983
- Congo (Zaire) .................................. hours, 1970
- Costa Rica ....................................... 3 weeks, 1949, 1988
- Croatia ............................................ as Yugoslavia
- Cuba .................................................minutes, 1940
- Cyprus ..............................................1/2 day, 1964
- Czech Republic ............................... 96 days, 1932, 1933, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998
- Danzig (now in Poland) ....................2 days, 1933
- Denmark .......................................... 9 days, 1933, 1960, 1980, 1995, 1997
- Dominican Republic ........................ 7 days, 1942, 1984
- Egypt ............................................... 56 days, 1964, 1982, 1990
- El Salvador ...................................... 2 days, 1949
- Ecuador ........................................... 3 days, 1942, 1956
- Eritrea .............................................. as Ethiopia
- Ethiopia ........................................... 9 days, 1970
- Fiji ................................................... 2 days, 1959
- Finland ............................................ 3 days, 1970, 1973, 1977
- France ............................................. 183 days, 1929, 1932, 1950, 1953, 1958, 1960, 1964
....................................................................... 1969, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1993
- French Antilles ................................1/2 day, 1967
- Germany (East) ............................... 6 hours, 1954, 1981
- Germany (West) ............................. 185 days, 1928, 1932, 1933, 1950, 1954, 1968, 1978
....................................................................... 1980, 1981, 1983, 1987, 1991, 1993, 1997
- Ghana ............................................. minutes, 1970
- Gibraltar ......................................... 2 days, 1953
- Greece ............................................ 32 days, 1932, 1964, 1965
- Greenland ....................................... 4 hours, 1980
- Guatemala ....................................... 4 days, 1949
- Guyana ........................................... minutes, 1942
- Haiti ................................................ minutes, 1942
- Honduras ......................................... 1 day, 1949
- Hong King ....................................... 2 days, 1959
- Hungary .......................................... 5 days, 1932
- Iceland ............................................. 7 days, 1960, 1968, 1980
- India ................................................ 24 days, 1983
- Indonesia ......................................... minutes, 1959
- Iran .................................................. 13 days, 1974
- Ireland ............................................. 7 days, 1933, 1969
- Israel ............................................... 2 weeks, 1976
- Italy ................................................. 210 days, 1929, 1933, 1950, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1974
....................................................................... 1975, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1990, 1993
- Jamaica ............................................ 7 days, 1956, 1972
- Japan ................................................ 74 days, 1959, 1996
- Kenya ...............................................15 days, 1970
- Korea (South)................................... 3 days, 1959
- Latvia ............................................... 1 day, 1933
- Lebanon ........................................... 1 day, 1964
- Liberia ............................................. minutes, 1970
- Libya ............................................... 1/2 day, 1933
- Liechtenstein ................................... 8 days, 1929, 1932,1954
- Lithuania ........................................ 2 days, 1933
- Luxembourg .................................... 7 days, 1929, 1950, 1968
- Macao ............................................ 1 day, 1959
- Macedonia ....................................... as Yugoslavia
- Malaysia .......................................... 1.5 day, 1959
- Malta ............................................... 2 days, 1933
- Mauritania ....................................... hours, 1972
- Mexico............................................. 316 days, 1937, 1941, 1945, 1946, 1949, 1952, 1958
....................................................................... 1971, 1973, 1976, 1981, 1992, 1993
- Monaco ............................................ 1 day, 1929, 1950
- Morocco ........................................... 5 days, 1953
- Nepal ................................................ 3 days, 1983
- Netherlands ...................................... 19 days, 1933, 1953, 1954, 1973, 1974, 1997
- Netherlands Antilles ........................ 6 days, 1967
- New Zealand ..................................... 2 days, 1959
- Newfoundland (now in Canada) ....... 2 days, 1933
- Nicaragua .......................................... 2 days, 1949
- Nigeria ............................................... minutes, 1970
- Norway .............................................. 36 days, 1960, 1970, 1992, 1993
- Panama .............................................. 5 days, 1942, 1949, 1988
- Peru ................................................... 7 days, 1942, 1956
- Poland ............................................... 33 days, 1933
- Portugal ............................................ 195 days, 1938, 1939, 1953, 1960, 1965, 1972, 1973
.......................................................................... 1974, 1978
- Romania ............................................ 1 day, 1932
- Russia (USSR) .................................. 1.75 days, 1977
- Rwanda ............................................. minutes, 1970
- San Marino ........................................ 15 days, 1929, 1953, 1968, 1990
- Senegal ............................................... minutes, 1970
- Singapore .......................................... as part of Malaysia
- Slovakia ............................................. as part of Czechoslovakia
- South Africa ...................................... 24 days, 1980
- Spain ................................................. 104 days, 1950, 1953, 1973, 1974, 1986, 1990, 1994
- Spanish Sahara .................................. 4 days, 1972
- St. Pierre & Miquelon ...................... 1 day, 1935
- Surinam ............................................ minutes, 1942
- Swaziland .......................................... 1 day, 1980
- Sweden .............................................. 29 days, 1933, 1973, 1977, 1980, 1993
- Switzerland ........................................ 48 days, 1929, 1932, 1950, 1954, 1960, 1964, 1968
....................................................................... 1975, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1993
- Syria .................................................. 1 day, 1964
- Taiwan ............................................... 1 day, 1959
- Tanzania ............................................ 7 days, 1970
- Thailand (Siam) ................................. 2 days, 1959
- Trinidad & Tobago .............................1 hour, 1942
- Tunesia .............................................. 16 days, 1978
- Turkey ................................................ 9 days, 1932, 1964
- Uganda ............................................... 9 days, 1970
- United Kingdom ................................. 673 days, 1929, 1950, 1953, 1954, 1958, 1964, 1965
........................................................................... 1969, 1970, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1978, 1982
........................................................................... 1988, 1996
- United States ...................................... most days (visited all 50 states)
- US Caribbean ..................................... 2 days, 1942, 1949, 1967, 1984 (PR, Canal Zone)
- US Pacific Trust (Okinawa)................ 1/2 day, 1959
- Vatican City ...................................... 1 day, 1929, 1933, 1964
- Venezuela ........................................... 6 2/3 days, 1975, 1976
- Vietnam (South) ................................. 2 days, 1959
- Yugoslavia ......................................... 18 days, 1932, 1958, 1979
50th State for 90th Birthday (1998) - Victoria, Alexander, Van, and Douglas Quine

COUNTRIES ............... (FLEW OVER, DID NOT LAND)
- Afghanistan .......................................... flew over; 1983
- Bahrain .................................................. flew over, 1983
- Benin (Dahomey).................................. flew over, 1970
- Cameroon .............................................. flew over, 1970
- Central African Republic ..................... flew over, 1970
- Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast).................. flew over, 1970
- French Guiana ........................................flew over, 1942
- Gambia (the) .......................................... flew over, 1970
- Grenada ................................................. flew over, 1942
- Guinea ....................................................flew over, 1970
- Iraq ........................................................ flew over, 1983
- Jordan .................................................... flew over, 1983
- Pakistan................................................. flew over, 1983
- Saudi Arabia ......................................... flew over, 1983
- Sierra Leone .......................................... flew over, 1970
- St. Vincent & the Grenadines ............. flew over, 1942
- Sudan .................................................... flew over, 1970
- Togo....................................................... flew over, 1970
- United Arab Emirates .......................... flew over, 1983
COUNTRIES ...... (SEEN BUT NEVER FLEW OVER OR LANDED)
- Algeria ......................... seen from side as passing by
- Argentina .................... seen from side as passing by
- Bangladesh ................. seen from side as passing by
- China ............................ seen from side as passing by
- Dominica ..................... seen from side as passing by
- Mozambique ............... seen from side as passing by
- Oman ........................... seen from side as passing by
- St. Lucia ...................... seen from side as passing by
Incomplete list based upon Quine's published autobiography and undated handwritten Quine listings. In many instances the institution name is unknown when only the city name was mentioned. Some dates are only known within a range of years; many lecture subjects are unknown. Please email with corrections or updates with university names, lecture titles, or dates.
- United States
- Arizona
- Phoenix (~1986) "The Sensory Support of Science"
- Tucson (April 1, 1975) "On Empirically Equivalent Systems of the World"
- Tucson (1976) "Identity"
- California:
- Berkeley (1971) "Truth and Disquotation")
- Berkeley (1979) Ontology
- Irvine (1971) three week Summer Institute of Philosophy - lectures and discussion
- Stanford (1969) "Methodological Reflections on Linguistic Theory"
- Stanford (1980) "Science and Sensibilia" - Immanuel Kant lectures
- Stanford (1986) colloquium with Davidson, Dreben, Føllesdal
- U.S.C. (1949? or 1979?) Ontology
- Colorado: University of Denver (~1965) "Existence"
- Connecticut:
- Trinity
- University of Connecticut, Storrs (~1965) "Natural Kinds"
- University of Connecticut, Storrs (1973) colloquium
- Yale (~1947) "On What There Is"
- Yale (November 13, 1962) four talks on frontiers in philosophy one of which was published in French translation: 1964. Les Frontières de la théorie logique / Frontieres dans la theorie logique. in Études Philosophiques (April-June 1964), 19(2): 191-208. French translation by Jacques Derrida and Roger Martin.)
- Florida
- Tallahassee (1979)
- (uncertain campus) (~1951) "The Problem of Simplifying Truth Functions"
- Illinois:
- Northwestern University (1973)
- University of Chicago (1950) "On Carnap's View on Ontology"
- University of Chicago (1965) "Propositional Objects"
- University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana (1965) "Propositional Objects"
- Indiana:
- Notre Dame (1971) week of lectures and discussion
- Indiana Iniversity Bloomington (~1971) extended lectures and discussion
- Iowa (March 6, 1975) "On Empirically Equivalent Systems of the World"
- Kansas: Lawrence (1986)
- Louisiana: Tulane (1973; 1984)
- Maine
- Bowdoin (1962) lectures on history of logic
- Farmington (1983) "The Elusiveness of Reference"
- Maryland: St. John's
- Massachusetts:
- Amherst (1965) "Propositional Objects"; 1968: "Grades of Theoreticity"
- Boston (innumerable)
- Boston: World Congress of Philosophy (1998) - last lectures
- Boston (Philosophy Club of Boston) (Oct. 24, 1975: "The Mentalistic Foundations for Physicalism"
- Boston (uncertain location) (~1981: "Object and Observation")
- Boston University (1979) comment on Hartshorne
- Boston University (1981) 3x
- Boston University (1983) "The Ins and Outs of Existence"
- Boston University (~1987) truth
- Brandeis
- Harvard (innumerable)
- Harvard (April 29, 1975) addressed anthropologists on meaning
- Mt. Holyoke (1980) "What Is It All About?"
- Northeastern
- Smith College (October 22, 1985) “Convention and Its Place in Truth” (Houghton Library Archive, MS Am 2587, (2883)) - discovered by James Andrew Smith, Jr. - Aug 5, 2019
- Tufts
- University of Massachusetts
- Michigan:
- Michigan State (~1965) "Stimulus and Meaning"
- Oakland (1980) "What Is It All About?"
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1951) "The Problem of Meaning in Linguistics"
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1958) simplifying truth functions 3x
1965: "Propositional Objects"; 1979: naturalistic epistemology; ontology; 1980: comment on Campbell: "States of Mind"
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1965) "Propositional Objects"
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1979) naturalistic epistemology; ontology
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1980) comment on Campbell: "States of Mind"
- Wayne State (1973) extended lectures and discussion
- Missouri:
- St. Louis: American Philosophical Association (1971)
- University of Missouri, Columbia (October 22, 1975) "Physical Objects"
- University of Missouri, Columbia (1978) Colloquium with Sellers & Herrnstein
- Washington University (1986)
- Montana: Missoula (1992: Henry Bugbee lecture: "In Praise of Observation Sentences"
- Nebraska: Lincoln (1978: ontology)
- New Hampshire: Dartmouth (May 20, 1977) "Grammar, Truth, and Logic"
- New Jersey:
- Princeton (Dec. 8, 1937) "Is logic a matter of words?" 2509 words to American Philosophical Association
- Princeton (~1971) extended lectures and discussion
- Princeton (November 21, 1975) "On Empirically Equivalent Systems of the World"
- Princeton (~1981: "Object and Observation"
- Rutgers (1984)
- Rutgers (1987)
- New York:
- Brockport (~1965) "Philosophical Progress in Language Theory"
- Brooklyn (~1965) "Natural Kinds"
- Columbia (1954) "The Scope and Language of Science"
- Columbia (1968: John Dewey lectures: "Ontological Relativity"
- New School
- New York (1972) lecture on definition at lexicography conference
- New York (1972) "Levels of Abstraction" at conference on unified science
- New York (November 28-29, 1975) lecture and discussant at conference on unified science
- New York (April 4, 1976) discussant in Davidson - Harman - Wallace panel
- New York Academy
- New York University (1938) "On The Theory of Logical Types"
- Queens
- Rensselaer
- Rockefeller (1968) during semester of residence
- Rockefeller (March 30, 1976) "Facts of the Matter" and discussion
- Southampton (1968) lectures in Summer Institute of Philosophy
- Syracuse (1981)
- North Carolina:
- Chapel Hill - Mathematical Association of America (1936) "New Foundations"
- Duke
- University of North Carolina
- Ohio:
- Case Western Reserve
- Oberlin (December 12, 1974) "The Mentalistic Foundations for Physicalism"
- Ohio State
- University of Akron (1961, on paradox)
- University of Cincinnati
- Oklahoma:
- Norman (January 24, 1975) "Ontology and Truth"
- University of Oklahoma (April 2, 1976) "Facts of the Matter" at conference: Two Hundred Years of American Philosophy: Edwards to Quine
- Pennsylvania:
- Bryn Mawr (1950) Delaguna lecture "Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis"
- Lehigh University (1990: "From Stimulus to Science")
- University of Pennsylvania
- West Chester (October 24, 1974) "The Mentalistic Foundations for Physicalism"
- Rhode Island:
- Brown (~1981) "Object and Observation"
- Brown (1984)
- South Carolina
- University of South Carolina, Columbia (October 31, 1975) "The Pragmatist's Place in Empiricism"
- Tennessee
- Texas:
- Dallas (January 23, 1975) "Identity"
- Denton (October 21, 1976) "Physical Objects"
- University of Texas
- Utah
- University of Utah (~1975) "On Empirically Equivalent Systems of the World"
- Washington
- Bellingham (1978) Physical Objects
- Washington DC: Howard University
- Wisconsin
- Madison (1979)
- Wisconsin: (unknown which campus) (1986)
- Australia
- Adelaide (1959) Gavin David Young lectures, precursor to Word and Object
- Austria
- Vienna (1968) "Epistemology Naturalized" and "On the Limits of Decision"; also at some time lectured in German
- Belgium:
- Brussels (in French, 1979)
- Louvain-la-Neuve (in French, 1979)
- Brazil
- São Paulo (1942) multiple lectures in Portuguese became the book "O Sentido da Nova Lógica"
- Canada:
- Calgary (1970)
- Laval (~1965) ontology)
- Lethbridge (1992) "In Praise of Observation Sentences"
- McGill
- Queen's
- Toronto (1984)
- University of Alberta, Edmonton (1971)
- Colombia
- Barranquilla (February 21-22, 1983) spoke on "The Ins and Outs of Existence" at the "Symposium on Epistemology, History, and Philosophy of Science"
- Czech Republic
- Karlovy Vary (1995) "I, You, and It: the Semantic Triangle"
- Karlovy Vary (1996) discussant
- Karls University
- France
- Aix-en-Provence (in French, 1979)
- Collège de France (1969) Philosophy of Logic course in French; 1979, in French
- Lille (in French, 1979 or 1980)
- Paris (1978) logic colloquium
- Paris (1984) "Carnap's Positivistic Travail"
- Royaumont (1958) "Le mythe de la signification"
- Germany
- Düsseldorf
- Göttingen (1981) 3x
- Konstanz (1991) Carnap & Reichenbach centenary symposium
- Munich (1978) Physische Gegenstände, in German
- Stuttgart (1981) "Gegenstand und Beobachtung", in German - adapted from "Object and Observation"
- Iceland
- Reykjavik (1980) "What Is It All About?"
- India
- Calcutta (1983) "The Mentalistic Heritage"
- Jadavpur (1983) 2x
- Lucknow (1983: "The Ins and Outs of Existence"
- Israel
- Hebrew University, Jerusulem (April 25, 1976) colloquium talk "Use and Its Place in Meaning"
- Hebrew University, Jerusulem (May 2, 1976) "Facts of the Matter"
- Italy
- Bellagio (in residence August 10-September 18, 1975)
- Florence (April 5, 1974) "The Nature of Natural Learning" in Italian
- Palermo (1985) "Meaning, Reference, and Truth"
- Turin (1982) "Peano as Logician", in Italian
- Japan
- Keto
- Kyoto Prize lectures (1996)
- "Kyoto Acceptance speech" was presented at the Kyoto Prize ceremony on November 10, 1996
- "Tidy Parsimony" was the commemorative lecture presented at the Kyoto Prize ceremony on November 11, 1996
- "Instinct, Reification and Extensionality" was presented at the workshop on Language, Holism, and Naturalism on November 12, 1996
- University of Kyoto
- University of Tokyo (1959) 2 summer courses
- Korea: Seoul
- Mexico
- Oaxaca (1981) "Objeto y observación", in Spanish
- Netherlands
- Amersfoort
- Oldenburg (1997) Karl Jaspers lecture: "The Growth of Mind in Language"
- Utrecht (February 23, 1974) "Theory and Observation" (= "Nature of Natural Knowledge")
- New Zealand: Auckland
- Norway
- Oslo (1970) predicate-functor logic; 1992: "In Praise of Observation Sentences"
- Poland: Warsaw
- San Marino (1990) colloquium on Quine
- South Africa
- Cape Town (1980) "Meaning and the Alien Mind"
- Johannesburg (1980) "Meaning and the Alien Mind"
- Pretoria (1980) "Meaning and the Alien Mind"
- Spain:
- Cullera (1974) symposium)
- Girona (1990) Ferrater Mora lectures)
- Granada (1986) "The Sensory Support of Science"
- Valencia (1972) "Reflexiones sombre el aprendizaje del lenguaje", in Spanish
- Sweden
- Uppsala (1973) Hägerström lectures: "Roots of Reference"
- Uppsala (1977) "Grammar, Truth, and Logic"
- Uppsala (1980) "What Is It All About?"
- Switzerland:
- Berne (in French, 1979)
- Biel / Bienne (1990)
- Geneva
- United Kingdom (some colleges names may be within Cambridge or Oxford)
- Birmingham (February 11, 1974) answering questions
- Bristol (~1954)
- Cambridge (~1954; 1973 or 1974) lecture to Moral Science Club
- Cambridge (February 20, 1974) "On the Individualization of Attributes"
- Edinburgh (May 30, 1974) "Theory and Observation"
- Exeter College (November 8, 1973) Marett Lecture "~~ Substantial Quantification"
- Leeds (May 18, 1974) "Ontology and Truth"
- Leicester (~1954)
- London (May 20, 1974) B.S.P.S. (? British Society Philosophy Science) "Identity"
- Manchester (May 29, 1974) "Identity"
- Oxford (innumerable)
- Oxford (1953-1954) lecture courses on philosophy of language, logic, set theory
- Oxford (1973 or 1974) "The Nature of Natural Knowledge"
- Oxford Ayer's Group (May 14, 1974) "Identity"
- Oxford Maths Institute (June 14, 1974) "Ontology and Truth"
- Oxford Merton Middle Common Room (June 19, 1974) "On How I See Philosophy"
- Reading (1996) "The Flowering of Thought in Language"
- St. Andrews (May 31, 1974) "Identity"
- University College, London (1954) Shearman lectures, on ontology
- University Of Wales, Aberystwyth (May 7, 1974) "Identity"
- Windsor (~1954) 5 day symposium
- Wolfson College (February 26, 1974) "Identity"
- Yugoslavia: Dubrovnik (1979)
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