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- Quine, Willard Van Orman (1908–2000) US philosopher. He was professor of philosophy at Harvard (1948–78). Quine regarded philosophy as a branch of natural science. In Two Dogmas of Empiricism (1951), he argued for a holistic approach to empiricism, abandoning the analytic-synthetic distinction made by Immanuel Kant.
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Willard Van Orman Quine (/ k w aɪ n /; known to his friends as "Van"; June 25, 1908 – December 25, 2000) was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition, recognized as "one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century".
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Jun 22, 2024 · Willard Van Orman Quine (born June 25, 1908, Akron, Ohio, U.S.—died December 25, 2000, Boston, Massachusetts) was an American logician and philosopher, widely considered one of the dominant figures in Anglo-American philosophy in the last half of the 20th century.
Apr 9, 2010 · Willard Van Orman Quine, 1908–2000, Philosopher and Mathematician, a site maintained by Douglas Quine, son of W. V. O. Quine, dedicated to the work of the latter. It includes bibliographical information, lists of books on Quine, and much else.
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Apr 9, 2010 · Willard Van Orman Quine (1908–2000) worked in theoretical philosophy and in logic. (In practical philosophy—ethics and political philosophy—his contributions are negligible.) He is perhaps best known for his arguments against Logical Empiricism (in particular, its use of the analytic-synthetic distinction).
May 11, 2018 · Willard Van Orman Quine (born 1908), American philosopher, is best known for his advocacy of the logical regimentation of ordinary language. On June 25, 1908, W. V. Quine was born in Akron, Ohio. He earned the bachelor of arts degree summa cum laude in 1930 from Oberlin College.
On the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ohio's outstanding native son, the distinguished philosopher and logician Willard Van Orman Quine, an official Ohio Historical Society Ohio Historical Marker was unveiled on June 25, 2008 at Oberlin College (where Quine did his undergraduate studies).
Willard Van Orman Quine, an Edgar Pierce professor of philosophy at Harvard, was born in Akron, Ohio. In 1930 he was graduated from Oberlin, where he majored in mathematics, and he wrote a doctoral dissertation in logic under Alfred North Whitehead at Harvard.
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