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Quine’s influences on philosophy were important and great! He produced many books on philosophy and mathematics. His rejection of Logical Empiricism assisted in the essentials of his work and theoretical questions. His is most remembered for being one of the most influential philosophers in analytics.
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Born to Cloyd R. Quine and Harriet E. Quine (public school teacher) in Ohio. -
W.V. Quine attended Oberlin College to receive his undergrad in mathematics with an honors in Mathematic Philosophy.
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W.V. Quine attended Harvard University to receive his Ph.D in Philosophy. Here he completed his dissertation on Whitehead and Russell’s “Principia Mathematica”.
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Vienna, Warsaw and Prague.
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W.V. Quine worked expressly on logic and theology
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He published this revision of a dissertation on Whitehead and Russell’s ”Principia Mathematica”. This work is important because it was one of his first officially published works. In this book he talks about simple concepts that develops in to more complex math.
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Quine held a a Faculty Instructor (1933-1941)
Associate Professor (1941-1948)
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Published his work on formal logic within mathematics. -
He enlisted in the U.S. Navy during World War II as a Lieutenant (Lt) for about 4 years in an Intelligence role, deciphering messages for the war.
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Quine’s two dogmas were: “there is some fundamental cleavage between truths which are analytical or grounded in meaning independently of matters of fact” and “that each meaningful statement is equivalent to some logical construct upon terms which refer to immediate experience”. (Quince, 1951).
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Quine published 9 more books:
- From a logical Point of View
-Word and object
-Set Theory and its Logic
-Ways of Paradox
-Ontological relativity and Other Essays
-The Roots of Reference
-Theories and Things
-Pursuit of Truth
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W.V. Quine died in Massachusetts, Boston. -
Hylton, Peter, and Gary Kemp. “Willard Van Orman Quine.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 6 July 2023, plato.stanford.edu/entries/quine/#QuinLifeWork. Willard Van Orman Quine’s Professional Essays, Articles, Reviews, Abstracts, Unpublished Manuscripts, Lectures, and Remarks, maintained by Douglas Boynton Quine. The Philosophy of W. V. Quine, Peru, IL: Open Court; second, expanded edition, 1998, which is complete up to 1997.
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“Two Dogmas of Empiricism”, Philosophical Review, 60: 20–43; reprinted in From a Logical Point of View, pp. 20–46. Word and Object, Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1960.