Willard Van Orman Quine
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 24 years ago |
Date of birth | June 25,1908 |
Zodiac sign | Cancer |
Born | Akron |
Ohio | |
United States | |
Date of died | December 25,2000 |
Died | Boston |
Massachusetts | |
United States | |
Other notable students | Donald Davidson |
Daniel Dennett | |
Children | Douglas B. Quine |
Norma Quine | |
Margaret Quine McGovern | |
Elizabeth Quine Roberts | |
Douglas Boynton Quine | |
Spouse | Marjorie Boynton |
Naomi Clayton | |
Parents | Cloyd Robert Quine |
Harriet Ellis Van Orman Quine | |
Awards | Rolf Schock Prizes |
Influence | Rudolf Carnap |
Charles Sanders Peirce | |
Alfred Tarski | |
Influenced | Hilary Putnam |
Donald Davidson | |
David K. Lewis | |
Daniel Dennett | |
Hao Wang | |
Gilbert Harman | |
Dagfinn Føllesdal | |
Books | Two Dogmas of Empiricism |
Word and Object | |
On What There Is | |
From a Logical Point of View | |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 419771 |
Willard Van Orman Quine Life story
Willard Van Orman Quine was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition, recognized as "one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century". He served as the Edgar Pierce Chair of Philosophy at Harvard from 1956 to 1978. Quine was a teacher of logic and set theory.