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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". He served as the Edgar Pierce Chair of Philosophy at Harvard University from ...
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 was one of the most well-known American “analytic” philosophers of the twentieth century. He made significant contributions to many areas of philosophy, including philosophy of language, logic, epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind/psychology ( behaviorism ).
This project investigates both the epistemological and ontological dimensions of scientific theorizing. Quine’s epistemological concern is to examine our successful acquisition of scientific theories, while his ontological interests focus on the further logical regimentation of that theory.
Jan 18, 2001 · Willard Van Orman Quine, one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century, died on Christmas Day at the age of 92. In more than 20 books that have been translated into some 50 languages, Quine has addressed topics both weighty and whimsical.
Home page for Willard Van Orman Quine, mathematician and philosopher who held the Edgar Pierce Chair of Philosophy at Harvard University from 1956-2000. Over the last half century his literary output was prodigious in such areas as mathematical logic, set theory, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of logic.
