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Willard Van Orman Quine
Born -
Hilary Putnam
Born -
Willard Van Orman Quine
Graduated Oberlin College with a BA in Mathematics and a commendation on mathematical philosophy. -
Willard Van Orman Quine
Published first revision of PhD dissertation on Whitehead and Russell's "Principia Mathematica" -
Willard Van Orman Quine
Published "A System of Logic" a revision of his dissertation. -
Willard Van Orman Quine
Published "Mathematical Logic" -
Hilary Putnam
Received PhD with a dissertation in probability -
Willard Van Orman Quine
Quote: “Science is not a substitute for common sense but an extension of it.” (1957, 229). - Copied from Stamford Encyclopedia of Philosophy -
Willard Van Orman Quine
Conceptualized "Self Naturalism" as a means to justify science as the "best:" method of epistemological knowledge. - Stamford Encyclopedia of Philosophy -
Hilary Putnam
Wrote an Algorithm and Incomplete Proof of the "Diophantine equations" - Britannica -
Hilary Putnam
Proof Completed by Yuri Matiyasevich on the "Diophantine equations" - Britannica -
Willard Van Orman Quine
Quote: “In our account of how science might be acquired we do not try to justify science by some prior and firmer philosophy, but neither are we to maintain less than scientific standards. Evidence must regularly be sought in external objects, out where observers can jointly observe it….” (1974, 34f.) - Copied from the Stamford Encyclopedia of Philosophy -
Hilary Putnam
Proposes that "meaning" and "truth" are inherently connected in his work "The Meaning of Meaning" - Britannica -
Hilary Putnam
Defended the position of “internal realism” over “metaphysical realism", a marked major change in his lifelong ideology and philosophy. - Britannica -
Willard Van Orman Quine
Quote: “the recognition that it is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described” (1981, 21) - copied from the Stamford Encyclopedia of Philosophy -
Willard Van Orman Quine
Published "From Stimulus to Science" -
Hilary Putnam
Retired Professor Emeritus from Harvard - Britannica -
Willard Van Orman Quine
Died -
Hilary Putnam
Died