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Willard Van Orman Quine

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  • Born

    Born
    W. V. Quine, was an American philosopher with roots based in logic and analytics. As a teenager W. V. Quine was an atheist. W. V. Quine had married twice and four children. His nephew was Robert Quine an American guitarist.

  • Oberlin College

    Oberlin College
    W. V. Quine attended Oberlin College in Ohio, where he receive a Bachelors of Arts in Mathematics.

  • Harvard University

    Harvard University
    W. V. Quine attended Harvard University and received his Masters of Arts in Philosophy in his pursuit of his Ph.D.

  • Harvard University

    Harvard University
    Finishing his Ph.D. in Philosophy, W. V. Quine's thesis on formal logic and set theory would ultimate define his place among the most influencer philosophers of the twenith centry.

  • Europe

    W. V. Quine traveled to Europe on the Frederick Sheldon scholarship from Harvard. In Europe W. V. Quine met Pholish logicians, Stanislaw Lesniewski and Alfred Tarski.

  • Alfred Tarski

    Alfred Tarski
    Alfred Tarski was a mathematican and logician. He escaped Germany's Third Reich occupying invading force of Poland. His education and background consist of a Ph.D. from University of Warsaw. Eventually landing a position teaching at University of Berkeley in 1944.

  • Elementary Logic

    Elementary Logic
    Quine was not pleased with the current educational materials avaiable. As a result he saught out to write Elementary Logic as a solution to quantification theory and first-order logic. The effort by W. V. Quine was not elaborate by some quantification of measurement. The writing only took him six weeks to write as a supplement to his teachings at Harvard.

  • Methods of Logic

    Methods of Logic
    W. V. Quine had ended up with a total of four editions of Methods of Logic. Quine's writings of Method of Logic was designed for advanced undergraduate studies at Harvard.

  • Two Dogmas of Empiricism

    Two Dogmas of Empiricism
    One of Quine's more aggressive approaches to establishing his views on logic. The First Dogma, based on truths surrounded in facts. Establishing a clear distinction between analytic truths and synthetic truths. The Second Dogma is reductionism. Reductionism establishes meaning composed from logical construction.

  • Naturalized Epistemology

    Naturalized Epistemology
    During the 1960s, W. V. Quine fine-tuned his take on Epistemology with what became as Naturalized Epistemology. His naturalized epistemology enhanced methods of scientific theories. Not many philosophers have migrated to W. V. Quine's high standards on of philosophy of science, however, his works have remained very influential.

  • Death

    Death
    Important Publications and Writings 1934 A System of Logistic
    1946. Concatenation as a basis for arithmetic
    1948. On What There Is
    1951. Two Dogmas of Empiricism
    1956. Quantifiers and Propositional Attitudes
    1963. Set Theory and Its Logic
    1966. Selected Logic Papers
    1969. Epistemology Naturalized
    1990. Pursuit of Truth

  • References 1

    Duignan, B. (2018, 12 21). Willard Van Orman Quine. Retrieved from Encyclopædia Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Willard-Van-Orman-Quine
    Gewertz, K. (2001, 01 18). Quine, 92, was major philosopher of 20th century. Retrieved from The Harvard Gazette: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2001/01/quine-92-was-major-philosopher-of-20th-century/

  • References 2

    Harvard. (n.d.). Traveling Fellowships. Retrieved from Harvard University Committe on General Scholarships: https://scholarships.harvard.edu/traveling-fellowships
    Hylton, P. (2018, 02 09). Willard Van Orman Quine. Retrieved from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/quine/
    Kemp, P. H. (2019, 02 14). Willard Van Orman Quine. Retrieved from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/quine/

  • References 3

    Quine, D. B. (n.d.). Willard Van Orman Quine, 1908-2000, Philosopher and Mathematician. Retrieved from WVQuin.com: http://www.wvquine.org/
    Quine, D. B. (n.d.). Willard Van Orman Quine's Professional Essays, Articles, Reviews, Abstracts, Unpublished Manuscripts, Lectures, and Remarks. Retrieved from WVQuine.com: http://www.wvquine.org/wvq-publish.html
    Sinclair, R. (n.d.). Willard Van Orman Quine: Philosophy of Science. Retrieved from iep.utm.edu: https://www.iep.utm.edu/quine-sc/

  • References 4

    The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. (2019, 01 10). Alfred Tarski. Retrieved from Encyclopaedia Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alfred-Tarski