Willard Van Orman Quine

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  • Birth

    Birth
    Willard Van Orman Quine was born on June 25, 1908

  • 1930-1932 (Education)

    1930-1932 (Education)
    W.V. Quine went to Oberlin College. He graduated with his Bachelors of Arts in Mathematics. In 1931 W.V. Quine went to continue his education in Harvard University. He then went on and graduated and got his Masters of Arts in Philosophy. Finally in 1932 W.V. Quine got his Ph.D. In Philosophy it was this year that W.V. Quine formed his thesis on former logic and set theory.

  • Became a teacher (1936)

    Became a teacher (1936)
    W.V. Quine was appointed onto the staff in Harvard University in 1936 as an instructor in Philosophy. He then went on and wrote about his teaching in his career.

  • U.S. NAVY (1942 - 1945)

    U.S. NAVY (1942 - 1945)
    During World War Two Willard Van Orman Quine worked in a Navy unit as a naval officer where he decoded, translated and also analyzed coded messages from the German submarine fleet, this was during the years of 1942 - 1945.

  • The Two Dogmas of Empiricism (1951)

    The Two Dogmas of Empiricism (1951)
    In 1951 W.V. Quine published his paper (The Two Dogmas of Empiricism) This paper is going against two central aspects of logical positivist philosophy. W.V. Quine two dogmas are
    (1.) “there is some fundamental cleavage between truths which are analytical or grounded in meaning independently of matters of fact”.
    (2.) “that each meaningful statement is equivalent to some logical construct upon terms which refer to immediate experience”.

  • Death

    Death
    Willard van Orman Quine passed away in Boston, Massachusetts December 25, 2000
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