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Willard Van Orman Quine (/ k w aɪ n /; known to his friends as "Van"; June 25, 1908 – December 25, 2000) was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition, recognized as "one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century".
Apr 9, 2010 · Willard Van Orman Quine (1908–2000) worked in theoretical philosophy and in logic. (In practical philosophy—ethics and political philosophy—his contributions are negligible.) He is perhaps best known for his arguments against Logical Empiricism (in particular, against its use of the analytic-synthetic distinction).
Jun 22, 2024 · Willard Van Orman Quine (born June 25, 1908, Akron, Ohio, U.S.—died December 25, 2000, Boston, Massachusetts) was an American logician and philosopher, widely considered one of the dominant figures in Anglo-American philosophy in the last half of the 20th century.
Willard Van Orman Quine: Philosophy of Science. W. V. O. Quine (1908-2000) did not conceive of philosophy as an activity separate from the general province of empirical science. His interest in science is not best described as a philosophy of science but as a set of reflections on the nature of science that is pursued with the same empirical ...
Jun 20, 2024 · Summary. Willard Van Orman Quine was born in Akron, Ohio, on June 25, 1908. His father, Cloyd Robert Quine, was an Akron businessman with a machine shop background. In 1917, Cloyd Quine founded the Akron Equipment Company, whose business was the manufacture of tire molds.
W. V. Quine, Willard Van Orman Quine (born 1908), American philosopher, is best known for his advocacy of the logical regimentation of ordinary language. Graduate…
Articles 1–20. Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University - Cited by 102,530.
Willard Van Orman Quine was born on June 25, 1908 in Akron, Ohio. He majored in mathematics with honors reading in mathematical philosophy at Oberlin College (BA), and later in philosophy in Harvard (M.A. and Ph.D.). He worked under the supervision of Whitehead on a generalization of Principia Mathematica.
Dec 25, 2000 · Willard Van Orman Quine was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition. View two larger pictures. Biography. Willard Van Quine's father was Cloyd Robert Quine, an engineer who founded the Akron Equipment Company. His mother, Harriet Van Orman, was a teacher.
Notes to Willard Van Orman Quine. 1. We focus here on the issue of how stimulation patterns are to be divided into types. Responses—primarily utterances—are also specific events which need to be grouped into types if we are to correlate them with stimulation patterns.
