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Willard Van Orman Quine
-Born on June 25, 1908, Akron, Ohio
-Died on December 25, 2000, at the age of 92, in Boston, Massachusetts
- Education: Oberlin College (B.A., 1930), Harvard University (P.H.D., 1932) -
Education: 1926–30
Education: Oberlin College B.A., 1930
Harvard University P.H.D., 1932 -
1930- until his passing
Willard's work as the Edgar Pierce chair of philosophy at Harvard from 1956 to 1978 continues to be influential 70 years after his passing. -
1932–33
Got a sheldon travling fellowship and traveled to places then in he started teaching. -
1933–36
Was a junior Harvard’s Society Fellows; worked on logic and set theory. -
September 1939
Van made a speech in Brazil in Portuguese on logic he also served in the in U.S. Navy as a military intelligence reached the rank of lieutenant commander. -
1948
He wrote "On What There Is" about his ontological commitment. -
1960s
He used natural science to explore knowledge and meaning in "naturalized epistemology." -
1980
Recived a honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Humanities in Uppsala University, Sweden. -
1993
Won a first shock Prize in Logic and Philosophy for the theory on knowledge and linguistic meaning -
1996
Kyoto Prize winner for contributions to logic, science philosophy and more in the 20th century. -
Christmas Day in 2000
Died of Alzheimer's -
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