Willard Van Orman Quine | |
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Born | 25 Juin 1908 Akron, Ohio |
Dee'd | 25 December 2000 Boston, Massachusetts | (aged 92)
Alma mater | Oberlin College (B.A., 1930) Harvard University (Ph.D., 1932) |
Hauf-marrae(s) | Naomi Clayton[1] Marjorie Boynton[1] |
Awairds | Rolf Schock Prizes in Logic an Filosofie (1993) Kyoto Prize (1996) |
Era | 20t-century filosofie |
Region | Wastren Filosofie |
Schuil | Analytic |
Institutions | Harvard Varsity |
Main interests | Logic, ontology, epistemology, filosofie o leid, filosofie o mathematics, filosofie o science, set theory |
Notable ideas | New Foondations, indeterminacy o translation, naituralised epistemology, ontological relativity, Quine's paradox, Duhem–Quine thesis, Quine–Putnam indispensability thesis, radical translation, inscrutability o reference, confirmation holism, Quine–McCluskey algorithm, Plato's beard |
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Scientific career | |
Thesis | The Logic of Sequences: A Generalization of Principia Mathematica (Scots: The Logic o Sequences: A Generalisation o Principia Mathematica) (1932) |
Doctoral advisor | Alfred North Whitehead |
Doctoral students | Donald Davidson, Hubert Dreyfus, David Lewis, Daniel Dennett, Gilbert Harman, Dagfinn Føllesdal, Hao Wang |
Willard Van Orman Quine (Juin 25, 1908 – December 25, 2000) (kent tae intimates as "Van")[1] wis an American filosofer an logician in the analytic tradeetion, recognised as "ane o the maist influential philosophers o the twentiet century."[2]