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The Early Years
William Van Orman Quine was born to Cloyd Quine and Harriet Van Orman in Akron, Ohio on June 25, 1908. He received his B.A. in Mathematics from Oberlin College in 1930 and his P.h.D in Philosophy from Harvard in 1932. From 1942-1945 Quine served in the Navy, in Naval Intelligence during WWII.
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Early Publications
In 1934 Quine published A system of Logic as his thesis at Harvard University. He then published Mathematical Logic in 1940 and followed up with Elementary Logic in 1941. -
Two Dogmas of Empiricism
In 1951, Quine published Two Dogmas of Empiricism, where he challenges logical positivism. He takes a holistic approach. Godfrey-Smith identifies the famous metaphor “face the tribunal of sense-experience . . . as a corporate body” (1953, 41) He attacked the analytic-synthetic distinction existence as the first dogma. The second deals with logical reductionism.
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Naturalized Epistemology
W.V. Quine "treats knowledge as embodied in language." He believes epistemology is a natural science, and a chapter of psychology. Very simply put, Quine shows the desire to know how we learn language and can form thoughts. Natural epistemology is discussed in his work Word and Object.
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Ontological Relativity
In 1969, Quine published Ontological Relativity and other Essays.
Ontological Relativity
