Willard Van Orman Fifteen

Willard Van Orman Quine. He was an American philosopher, recognized for his work in mathematical logic and his contributions to pragmatism as a theory of knowledge, these contributions being one of his greatest achievements throughout his life .

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1 Biographical synthesis
- 1 Studies
- 2 Work Performed
  - 2.1 Contributions to logic
- 3 Death
  - 3.1 Published books
- 2 Works
- 3 Source

Biographical synthesis

Willard Van Orman Quine was born in the city of Akron , Ohio in the United States on June 25 , 1908 .

Studies

He began his studies of mathematics at Oberlin College, Harvard University and Prague , with Rudolf Carnap . In 1932 he was a Magister Artium and received a doctorate in philosophy from Harvard.

Willard began his studies in mathematics training at Oberlin College and Harvard University , after which he went to study for a time in Prague with Rudolf Carnal , to later return to Harvard.

Although he began his career dedicating himself to the technical aspects of logic as the basis of philosophy, his later work focused on more general philosophical issues within the framework of systematic linguistics.

In 1932 he obtained his doctorate and was a Magister Artium from 1936 to 1978 he served as a teacher in the philosophy faculty of the same university.

Work done

Reader, professor and holder of the Edgar Pierce Chair of Philosophy, also at Harvard, from 1936 to 1978 . President of the American Philosophical Association in 1951 and of the Association for Symbolic lodge from 1953 to 1955 .

He is also known for his criticism of certain doctrines of logical empiricism and the traditional distinction between synthetic assertions (empirical or fact-based propositions) and analytical assertions (necessarily true propositions), by questioning the analytic-synthetic distinction, he proposes a semantic holism in which the propositions have meaning as a whole and not each one separately.

Quine made his main contributions to set theory, a branch of mathematical logic that deals with the relationship between sets.

Contributions to logic

Mathematical logic (1940).
From a logical point of view (1953).

Death

Willard Van Orman Quine died in the United States city of Boston, Massachusetts on December 25, 2000 at the age of 92.

Published books

Willard’s logical dictionary

A logistics system (A System of Logistic). 1934.
Mathematical Logic. 1940.
Elementary Logic. 1941.
The sense of the new logic (O Sentido da Nova Lógica). 1944.
The methods of logic (Methods of Logic). 1950.
From a logical point of view (From a Logical Point of View). 1953.
Word and Object. 1960.
Set theory and its logic (Set Theory and Its Logic). 1963.
The ways of paradox and other essays (The Ways of Paradox and Other Essays). 1966.
Selected Logic Papers. 1966.
Ontological Relativity and Other Essays. 1969.
The web of beliefs (The Web of Belief). 1970.
Philosophy of Logic. 1970.
Algebraic Logic and Predicate Functors. 1971.
The Roots of Reference. 1974.
The Time of My Life: An Autobiography. 1985.
Quidities: An Intermittently Philosophical Dictionary. 1987.
The science and data of the senses (La Scienza ei Dati di Senso). 1987.
The search for truth (Pursuit of Truth). 1990.
The Logic of Sequences: A Generalization of Principia Mathematica (The Logic of Sequences: A Generalization of Principia Mathematica). 1990.
Dear Carnap, Dear Van: The Quine-Carnap Correspondence and Related Work. 1991.
From Stimulus to Science. nineteen ninety five.

Plays

New foundations of mathematical logic (1937).
The theory of sets and its logic (1936).
Philosophy of Logic (1970).
The modes of paradox and other essays (1966).
Ontological Relativity and Other Essays (1969).