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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).
2009. Articles 1–20. Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University - Cited by 102,974.
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.
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.
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 ).
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 ...
Quine, who made a hobby of geography and etymology, was never able to trace the origin of the name Van Orman, with the hint of aristocracy that his mother cherished. She went to Buchtel College, the nucleus of the eventual University of Akron, and became an elementary grade teacher.
WILLARD VAN ORMAN QUINE, 1908-2000 W. V. Quine, one of the most eminent philosophers of the twentieth century, died December 25, 2000 at the age of 92, a day after collapsing at his home in Boston. He was Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Harvard University, an institution with which he was affiliated for seventy years.
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.).
