Philosopher · Twentieth century · United States
Willard Van Orman Quine
1908–2000
American logician who dominated analytic philosophy after the war. His Two Dogmas of Empiricism of 1951 attacked the analytic synthetic distinction and made philosophy continuous with science. He taught at Harvard and lived 1908 to 2000.
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- Born
- 1908, Akron, Ohio, United States.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Willard Van Orman Quine
- Died
- 2000, Boston, United States.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Willard Van Orman Quine
- School
- Analytic philosophy; naturalism.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Willard Van Orman Quine
- Known for
- Two Dogmas of Empiricism, Word and Object, and the indeterminacy of translation.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Willard Van Orman Quine
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