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Willard Van Orman Quine

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  • W. V. Quine

    Willard Van Orman Quine was born on June 25th, 1908 in Akron, Ohio.
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    1908-2000

    Willard Van Orman Quine was a Logician and philosopher in the analytic tradition. He contributed his work to logic, ontology, and epistemology.

  • Oberlin College

    Quine studied mathematics and logic at Oberlin College between 1926-1930 where he received his B.A summa cum laude in mathematics.

  • Harvard University

    After being awarded a scholarship he attended Harvard where he completed his Ph.D. in philosophy.

  • Harvard Junior Fellow

    During 1932-33 he went to Europe due to the Sheldon fellowship where he was introduced to polish logicians and the Vienna circle.

  • Elementary Logic

    In 1940 Quine published his Ad hoc solution to the lack of teaching for quantitative theory and order predicate logic.

  • Naval Intelligence Officer

    During WWII Quine served as a naval intelligence officer in Washington D.C from 1942 to 1945.

  • Harvard Professor

    In 1936 after his travel fellowship he joined the faculty, but he became a professor in 1948.

  • "On What There is"

    Quine published his dictum of ontological commitment "On What There is".

  • Methods of Logic

    Quine published this textbook on methods of logic. Which highlighted his undergraduate work by the four edition design.

  • "Two Dogmas of Empiricism"

    In 1951 Quine published "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" advocating in support of semantic holism.

  • Edgar Pierce Chair

    From 1956 to 1978 Quine held the Edgar Pierce chair of philosophy at Harvard.

  • Naturalized Epistemology

    In the 60's he published most of his work in Naturalized Epistemology where he sought to answer substantive questions of knowledge, meaning by application of natural sciences.

  • Philosophy Logic

    Quine published the Philosophy Logic which applied several Quinian themes, use-mentions confusions, quantified modal logic, and higher-order logic.

  • Honorary Doctorate

    In 1980 he received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University in Sweden in the humanities department.

  • Schock Prize

    In 1993 Quine won the first Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy, as well as the Kyoto prize in arts and philosophy.

  • Death

    On Christmas day, 2000 Quine died from Alzheimers.

  • Youtube Video

    Youtube
    attached above is a audio video that helps in understanding his life.

  • Reference

    Duignan, B. (2022, December 21). Willard Van Orman Quine | Biography, Books, Philosophy, & Facts. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Willard-Van-Orman-Quine