Dagfinn Føllesdal (born 22 June 1932) is a Norwegian-American philosopher.
After earning his bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Oslo, he attended Harvard University and earned his Ph.D. in 1961 under Willard Van Orman Quine.
In March of 2009, Føllesdal was appointed Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav by King Harald V of Norway, thanks to his work in philosophy, ethics, and bridging the divide between Anglo-American analytic philosophy and European continental philosophy.
[9] Føllesdal has written extensively on topics relating to the philosophy of language, phenomenology, existentialism, and hermeneutics.
He was a pupil of Quine and is among the leading experts on the indeterminacy of translation.