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Willard Van Orman Quine
Willard Van Orman Quine lived a full interesting life devoted to understanding knowledge itself. He was 92 years old when he left this reality. -
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Dates and Major works 1
1951, “Two Dogmas of Empiricism”, Philosophical Review, 60 (1951): 20–43; reprinted in From a Logical Point of View, pp. 20–46.
1953, From a Logical Point of View, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; revised edition, 1980.
1956, “Quantifiers and Propositional Attitudes”, Journal of Philosophy, 53: 177–87.
1957, “The Scope and Language of Science”, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 8: 1–17; reprinted in Quine, 1966. -
"From a Logical Point of View" by W.V. Quine
"From a Logical Point of View" by W.V. Quine
Quine argued against the idea and even against the existence of the analytic-synthetic distinction which was established by Immanuel Kant. -
His contribution to the Philosophy of science
W.V. Quine wanted his philosophy to be seen as a systematic attempt to understand science from within the resources of science itself. He advocated ‘naturalized epistemology’, which consists of his attempt to provide an improved scientific explanation of how we have developed elaborate scientific theories on the basis of sensory input. He also denies the importance of "analytic-synthetic distinction". -
His contribution to the Philosophy of science pt 2
The difference between Analytic statements (those true simply by the meanings of their words, such as "All bachelors are unmarried") and synthetic statements (those true or false by virtue of facts about the world, such as "There is a cat on the mat"). He argued that these views were incomplete and basically did not exist. By him denying these ideas, he caused ideas and theories that were once concrete to be susceptible to change. He turned truths into empirical theories. -
His contribution to the Philosophy of science pt 3
Williard Van Quine turned the scientific community on it their heads with his care and determination to find the what is "truth". Quine views human knowledge as one all-encompassing system of belief, which is constantly modified, dismissed, or accepted depending on how well it helps and explains what is observed. His work impacted many fields and continues to let us view the world differently. -
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Dates and Major works 2
1960, Word and Object, Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press.
1966, Ways of Paradox, New York: Random House; second edition, enlarged, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1976.
1969, Ontological Relativity and Other Essays, New York: Columbia University Press.
1974, Roots of Reference, La Salle, Ill.: Open Court.
1975a, “Empirically Equivalent Systems of the World”, Erkenntnis, 9 (1975) -
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Dates and Major works 3
1975c, “Mind and Verbal Dispositions”, in S. Guttenplan (ed.), Mind and Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975,
1976, “Whither Physical Objects?”, Boston Studies in Philosophy of Science
1977, “Intensions Revisited”, Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 2:
1981, Theories and Things, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
1984, “Relativism and Absolutism”, The Monist -
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Dates and major works 4
1986a, “Reply to Hilary Putnam”, in L. E. Hahn and P. A. Schilpp (eds.), The Philosophy of W. V. Quine, pp. 427–31.
1986b, “Reply to Roger F. Gibson Jr.”, in L. E. Hahn and P. A. Schilpp (eds.), The Philosophy of W. V. Quine, pp. 684–85.
1986c, “Reply to John Woods”, in L. E. Hahn and P. A. Schilpp (eds.), The Philosophy of W. V. Quine, pp. 726–28.
1990a, Pursuit of Truth, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990; revised edition, 1992. -
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Dates and Major works 5
1990b, “Three Indeterminacies”, in R. Barrett and R. Gibson (eds.), Perspectives on Quine,
1990c, “Comment on Parsons” in R. Barrett and R. Gibson (eds.), Perspectives on Quine
1991, “Two Dogmas in Retrospect”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy
1995, From Stimulus to Science, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
1996, “Progress on Two Fronts”, Journal of Philosophy, 93: -
In Conversation: W.V. Quine - The Dennett Panel (1994)
In Conversation: W.V. Quine - The Dennett Panel (1994)
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Dates and Major works 6
2000, “I, You, and It”, in A. Orenstein and Petr Kotatko (eds.), Knowledge, Language and Logic, Dordrecht Kluwer Academic Publishers.