Willard Van Orman Quine
Philosopher, Author
1908 – 2000
Who was Willard Van Orman Quine?
Willard Van Orman Quine was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition. From 1930 until his death 70 years later, Quine was continually affiliated with Harvard University in one way or another, first as a student, then as a professor of philosophy and a teacher of logic and set theory, and finally as a professor emeritus who published or revised several books in retirement. He filled the Edgar Pierce Chair of Philosophy at Harvard from 1956 to 1978. A recent poll conducted among analytic philosophers named Quine as the fifth most important philosopher of the past two centuries. He won the first Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy in 1993, for "his systematical and penetrating discussions of how learning of language and communication are based on socially available evidence and of the consequences of this for theories on knowledge and linguistic meaning." In 1996 he was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy for his "outstanding contributions to the progress of philosophy in the 20th century by proposing numerous theories based on keen insights in logic, epistemology, philosophy of science and philosophy of language."
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- Born
- Jun 25, 1908
Akron - Also known as
- W.V. Quine
- W.V.O. Quine
- W. V. Quine
- quine
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Oberlin College
- Harvard University
- Employment
- Harvard University
- Lived in
- Akron
- Died
- Dec 25, 2000
Boston
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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