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Akron, Ohio.
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B.A in Mathematics
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Ph.D. in Philosophy
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Quine met with some of the leading philosophers of the Vienna Circle, including Rudolf Carnap, being influenced by the ideas of Logical Positivism.(Duignan, 2019) This time spend abroad had a major influence on Quine, as he regarded Carnap one of his greatest teachers. Works cited:
Duignan, Brian. “Willard Van Orman Quine.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 21 Dec. 2019, www.britannica.com/biography/Willard-Van-Orman-Quine. -
Worked on logic and set theory. Hylton, Peter, and Gary Kemp. “Willard Van Orman Quine.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 14 Feb. 2019, plato.stanford.edu/entries/quine/.
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Some of Quine's other famous philosophical ideas include the following; Epistemology Naturalized, Ontology, Theory of Meaning, Circularity of Analyticity, and Two Dogmas of Empiricism.
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Held various teaching positions at Harvard University.
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According to Duignan, it was during the 1950s that Quine's theories and ideas of philosophy really began to take shape. "The proper task of a “naturalized epistemology,” as he saw it, was simply to give a psychological account of how scientific knowledge is actually obtained." (Duignan, 2019) Works cited:
Duignan, Brian. “Willard Van Orman Quine.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 21 Dec. 2019, www.britannica.com/biography/Willard-Van-Orman-Quine. -
Quine’s idea of Naturalism was that there was no a priori outside of science, on which science could be rationalized. (Gibson, 220) Meaning, that we needed science to tell us what science was. That the most valid information was derived from empirical observations within the respective field. Work Cited:
Gibson, Roger. “Remembering Willard van Orman Quine (1908–2000).” Journal for General Philosophy of Science, vol. 33, no. 2, Dec. 2002, p. 213. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1023/A:1022460321692. -
Quine had a vary broad take on the Philosophy of Science. He believed that there wasn't a clear line between philosophy and science. However, from the videos I've watched of his various interviews, he seemed to feel that people in a particular field were best suited to discussing the ideas of that field.
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Boston, Massachusetts.
