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Summary of Quine’s influence to Theoretical Philosophy
Quine’s influences on philosophy were important and great! He produced many books on philosophy and mathematics. His rejection of Logical Empiricism assisted in the essentials of his work and theoretical questions. His is most remembered for being one of the most influential philosophers in analytics. -
Birth
Born to Cloyd R. Quine and Harriet E. Quine (public school teacher) in Ohio. -
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Attended Oberlin College Ohio
W.V. Quine attended Oberlin College to receive his undergrad in mathematics with an honors in Mathematic Philosophy. -
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Attended Harvard University
W.V. Quine attended Harvard University to receive his Ph.D in Philosophy. Here he completed his dissertation on Whitehead and Russell’s “Principia Mathematica”. -
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Traveling Fellowship
Vienna, Warsaw and Prague. -
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Society of Fellows at Harvard
W.V. Quine worked expressly on logic and theology -
“A System of Logistic”
He published this revision of a dissertation on Whitehead and Russell’s ”Principia Mathematica”. This work is important because it was one of his first officially published works. In this book he talks about simple concepts that develops in to more complex math. -
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Harvard Professor
Quine held a a Faculty Instructor (1933-1941)
Associate Professor (1941-1948)
Professor (1948-1978) -
Mathematical Logic
Published his work on formal logic within mathematics. -
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U.S. Navy - WWII
He enlisted in the U.S. Navy during World War II as a Lieutenant (Lt) for about 4 years in an Intelligence role, deciphering messages for the war. -
Two Dogmas of Empiricism
Quine’s two dogmas were: “there is some fundamental cleavage between truths which are analytical or grounded in meaning independently of matters of fact” and “that each meaningful statement is equivalent to some logical construct upon terms which refer to immediate experience”. (Quince, 1951). -
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Quine Published more books
Quine published 9 more books:
- From a logical Point of View
-Word and object
-Set Theory and its Logic
-Ways of Paradox
-Ontological relativity and Other Essays
-The Roots of Reference
-Theories and Things
-Pursuit of Truth
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Death
W.V. Quine died in Massachusetts, Boston. -
References:
Hylton, Peter, and Gary Kemp. “Willard Van Orman Quine.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 6 July 2023, plato.stanford.edu/entries/quine/#QuinLifeWork. Willard Van Orman Quine’s Professional Essays, Articles, Reviews, Abstracts, Unpublished Manuscripts, Lectures, and Remarks, maintained by Douglas Boynton Quine. The Philosophy of W. V. Quine, Peru, IL: Open Court; second, expanded edition, 1998, which is complete up to 1997. -
More references
“Two Dogmas of Empiricism”, Philosophical Review, 60: 20–43; reprinted in From a Logical Point of View, pp. 20–46. Word and Object, Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1960.