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A System of Logic
A revised version of his dissertation. -
Birth
He was born in Akron Ohio. -
Attended Oberlin College
While attending here he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics. -
Harvard University
He earned his doctorate in Philosophy while attending Harvard. His dissertation was on Whitehead's and Russel's "Principia Mathematica" -
Junior Fellow 1933-1936
As a junior fellow in Harvard's newly formed Society of Fellow. He primarily worked on logic and set of theory. -
Mathematical Logic
This book is a defining volume of mathematical logic such as what is a natural number and how the operation of raising a relation to a numerical power. These are some of the basics for math operations. -
From a Logical Point of View
This was a compilation of nine essays that dealt mostly with theory of meaning and references, or semantics. -
Word and Object
He expands some of his thoughts from earlier writings in this book, and examines the notion of meaning and the linguistic mechanisms of objective reference. -
Set Theory and its Logic
This book was an in depth look into number set theory that explains it very well for students of mathematics. It also gives a very good look into the philosophy of set theory as well. -
Ways of Paradox and Other Essays
This book was a compilation of several of his essays such as "Truth by Convention", "Carnap and Logical Truth" "On Carnap's Views on Ontology". Some of the essays deal with unresolved issues of interest to philosophers today. -
Ontological Relativity and Other Essays
The essays in this book deal with three philosophical preoccupations: the nature of meaning, the meaning of existence and the nature of natural knowledge. The also give some insight into how his philosophical point of view was evolving over time and how he answered some of the questions from his previous works. -
The Roots of Reference
"Our only channel of information about the world is the impact of external forces on our sensory surfaces. So says science itself. There is no clairvoyance. How, then, can we have parlayed this meager sensory input into a full-blown scientific theory of the world? This is itself a scientific question. The pursuit of it, with free use of scientific theory, is what I call naturalized epistemology. The Roots of Reference falls within that domain." (Quine) -
Theories and Things
In this book Quine dives into philosophical reflections on language that are brought to bear upon epistemological and metaphysical questions. -
The Pursuit of Truth
In one of his last published writings, he works to clarify and further explain many of his previous philosophical ideas. He was continually reevaluating his previous theories and updating them to eliminate confusing or conflicting portions they contained. -
From Stimulus to Science
His last major published book and once again was centered on further clarifying his earlier works including his thinking on all the key components of his epistemological stance--especially the value of logic and mathematics. The unique thing that I noticed throughout this research most of his books were published by Harvard University Press. -
Died
He passed on Christmas day of 2000. Here is a short video with Professor Quine. (https://youtu.be/wIL8ms8QCJY)
