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Birth of W.V. Quine
Willard Van Orman Quine was born and raised in Ohio. His family consisted of an older brother, his father and mother. His father was an entrepreneur of Akron Equipment Company. His mother was a teacher. This combination of his parent's experience may of possibly helped him become the philosopher he later became. It seems being born in Ohio motivates people to grow and leave as most astronauts are from this state.
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Education
Willard Van Orman Quine has been affiliated with Harvard University the majority of his life. He started off as a student to later becoming a professor. He filled the Edgar Pierce Chair of Philosophy at Harvard from 1956 to 1978. A 2009 poll conducted among analytic philosophers named Quine as the fifth most important philosopher of the past two centuries.
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Philosophy Interview
W.V. Quine has a discussion of what is Philosophy in his own words. The interview is 52 minutes long. He also has a discussion of the beginning of life. He is interviewed by authors Bryan Magee and Ronald Dworkin. This hints how philosophy and literature cross sectors. He discusses how to handle disagreements and it sounds familiar to Stephen Toulmin's Argument Model.
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Awards (1993 & 1996)
Willard Van Orman Quine has won to major awards in his lifetime. W.V. Quine was awarded the Kyoto Award in creative arts and moral sciences. The Kyoto Award has been awarded to 34 other people in the Arts and Philosophy Field. He was also one of the first awarded the Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy.
https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/24/resources/3018
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Death of W.V. Quine
W.V. Quine died at the age of 92. He died in the state of Massachusetts. His second wife, Marjorie Boynton, died two years before him and with no children was not survived by anyone. He was awarded Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy (1993) and Kyoto Prize (1996). A computer program whose output is its own source code is called a "quine" after Quine.
autobiography, The Time of My Life (1986)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Van_Orman_Quine
