Willard Van Orman Quine

Willard Van Orman Quine
Willard Van Orman Quine
	Scientific career
Thesis	The Logic of Sequences: A Generalization of Principia Mathematica (Scots: The Logic o Sequences: A Generalisation o Principia Mathematica) (1932)
Doctoral advisor	Alfred North Whitehead
Doctoral students	Donald Davidson, Hubert Dreyfus, David Lewis, Daniel Dennett, Gilbert Harman, Dagfinn Føllesdal, Hao Wang

Willard Van Orman Quine
Willard Van Orman Quine
Born	25 Juin 1908; Akron, Ohio
Dee'd	25 December 2000 (aged 92); Boston, Massachusetts
Alma mater	Oberlin College (B.A., 1930); Harvard University (Ph.D., 1932)
Hauf-marrae(s)	Naomi Clayton; Marjorie Boynton
Awairds	Rolf Schock Prizes in Logic an Filosofie (1993); Kyoto Prize (1996)
Era	20t-century filosofie
Region	Wastren Filosofie
Schuil	Analytic
Institutions	Harvard Varsity
Main interests	Logic, ontology, epistemology, filosofie o leid, filosofie o mathematics, filosofie o science, set theory
Notable ideas	New Foondations, indeterminacy o translation, naituralised epistemology, ontological relativity, Quine's paradox, Duhem–Quine thesis, Quine–Putnam indispensability thesis, radical translation, inscrutability o reference, confirmation holism, Quine–McCluskey algorithm, Plato's beard
	Influences Rudolf Carnap, Alfred Tarski, Vienna Circle, C. I. Lewis, A. N. Whitehead, B. F. Skinner, Pierre Duhem;
	Influenced Roger F. Gibson, Jr., Donald Davidson, Daniel Dennett, David Lewis, Hilary Putnam, Dagfinn Føllesdal, Gilbert Harman, Hao Wang, Stephen Stich, Hilary Kornblith;

Willard Van Orman Quine (Juin 25, 1908 – December 25, 2000) (kent tae intimates as "Van")^[1] wis an American filosofer an logician in the analytic tradeetion, recognised as "ane o the maist influential philosophers o the twentiet century."^[2]

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↑ ^a ^b ^c O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F. (October 2003), "Willard Van Orman Quine", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St AndrewsCS1 maint: ref=harv (link).
↑ "W. V. Quine, Philosopher Who Analyzed Language and Reality, Dies at 92"

[mactutor-1] O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F. (October 2003), "Willard Van Orman Quine", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St AndrewsCS1 maint: ref=harv (link).

[2] "W. V. Quine, Philosopher Who Analyzed Language and Reality, Dies at 92"

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