Willard Van Orman Quine

Birth and Skills

Jun 25, 1908

Birth and Skillls: June 25, 1908 in Akron, Ohio
His skills were in theoretical philosophy and logic and was against the idea of Logical Empiricism (Hylton 2018). Hylton, Peter, "Willard van Orman Quine", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2018 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2018/entries/quine/. Watch this video to understand Logical Empiricism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELz_anSY4jc

Harvard and Carnap

1932

Quine had already received his Ph.D. in philosophy. He traveled to Europe and while at the Prague he met Rudolf Carnap. “Quine became, in his own words, "an ardent disciple" of Carnap discovering:- ... what it was to be intellectually fired by a living teacher rather than by a dead book (O’Conner & Roberston 2003).”
O'Connor, JJ, and EF Roberston. “Willard Van Orman Quine.” Quine Biography, Oct. 2003, www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Quine.html.

A System of Logistic

1934

One of Quine’s main interests were in math and logic. This book was written to correct and complete Principia Mathematica, written by Russell and Whitehead. Quine sought finish analyzing areas of the original book of modern symbolic logic. In doing so, the subject-matter had to be completely reorganized, along with its framework (Quine 1935). WILLARD VAN ORMAN QUINE, A System of Logistic (Book Review). vol. 32, Journal of Philosophy, Inc, New York, 1935.

Naturalism

1950

Quine's commitment to naturalism had two claims: there is no natural occurring standard for how to approach science and that science is what tells us exists and how it came to. Quine believes, “[etc.] best science advocates a physicalist ontology
and an empiricist epistemology (Gibson 2003).” Gibson, Roger. "Remembering Willard Van Orman Quine (1908-2000)." Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift Für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie, vol. 33, no. 2, 2002, pp. 213-229.

The Two Dogmas of Empiricism

1951

In this controversial essay, Quine suggests that there is no real distinction between synthetic and analytic sentences of individual scientific theories (Gibson 2003). Sentences are only true in their simplest word forms. Synonymy has no proof on what words are related.
Gibson, Roger. "Remembering Willard Van Orman Quine (1908-2000)." Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift Für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie, vol. 33, no. 2, 2002, pp. 213-229.

Death

Dec 25, 2000

W.V. Quine dies of Alzheimer's disease.