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- Henry Nelson Goodman (7 August 1906 – 25 November 1998) was an American philosopher, known for his work on counterfactuals, mereology, the problem of induction, irrealism, and aesthetics.
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Nov 21, 2014 · Nelson Goodman (1906–1998) was one of the most influential twentieth-century American philosophers. Goodman’s philosophical interests ranged from formal logic and the philosophy of science to the philosophy of art. In all these diverse fields Goodman made significant and highly original contributions.
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What are the main contributions of Nelson Goodman to philosophy? Nelson Goodman's contributions to philosophy were both profound and wide-ranging. His work on the problem of induction presented the "new riddle of induction," which became a cornerstone of contemporary epistemology.
Goodman, along with Stanislaw Lesniewski, is the founder of the contemporary variant of nominalism, which argues that philosophy, logic, and mathematics should dispense with set theory. Goodman's nominalism was driven purely by ontological considerations.
Goodman’s philosophy is contained in four major works: Fact, Fiction and Forecast (1955), Languages of Art (1976), Ways of Worldmaking (1978), and with Catherine Elgin, Reconceptions in Philosophy and Other Arts and Sciences (1988).
Goodman's contribution to the provision of such inductive canons has been threefold. First, he provided an analysis of the character of philosophical problems about induction.
May 7, 2005 · Nelson Goodman has certainly been one of the most influential figures in contemporary aesthetics and analytic philosophy in general (in addition to aesthetics, his contributions cover the areas of applied logic, metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of science).
Goodman’s contributions are characterized by their fundamental and far- reaching importance, great originality as well as a rare combination of rigor and elegance.