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W.V.O. Quine

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born

June 25, 1908 in Akron, Ohio, The United States

died

December 25, 2000

gender

male

website

http://wvquine.org/

genre

Philosophy, Science, Nonfiction

influences

Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein

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"Willard Van Orman Quine (June 25, 1908 Akron, Ohio – December 25, 2000) (known to intimates as "Van"), was an American analytic philosopher and logician. From 1930 until his death 70 years later, Quine was affiliated in some way with Harvard University, first as a student, then as a professor of philosophy and a teacher of mathematics, and finally as an emeritus elder statesman who published or revised seven books in retirement. He filled the Edgar Pierce Chair of Philosophy at Harvard, 1956-78. Quine falls squarely into the analytic philosophy tradition while also being the main proponent of the view that philosophy is not conceptual analysis. His major writings include "Two Dogmas of Empiricism", which attacked the distinction between an...more

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Books by W.V.O. Quine

Average rating: 3.92 · 760 ratings · 43 reviews · 25 distinct works

	Word and Object 3.99 avg rating — 225 ratings — published 1959 — 3 editions	My rating:
	From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays 3.98 avg rating — 164 ratings — published 1980 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Web of Belief by W.V.O. Quine, J.S. Ullian, J. S. Ullian 3.68 avg rating — 50 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Ontological Relativity and Other Essays 3.90 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1969 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Methods of Logic 3.85 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1959 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Ways of Paradox and Other Essays 4.05 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1966 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Quiddities: An Intermittently Philosophical Dictionary 4.00 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1987 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Philosophy of Logic 3.74 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1970 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Mathematical Logic 4.03 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1951 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Pursuit of Truth 4.00 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by W.V.O. Quine

“Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically, to the gods of Homer . . . For my part I do, qua lay physicist, believe in physical objects and not in Homer's gods; and I consider it a scientific error to believe otherwise. But in point of epistemological footing, the physical objects and the gods differ only in degree and not in kind. Both sorts of entities enter our conceptions only as cultural posits.”
― W.V.O. Quine

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“A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put into three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: 'What is there?' It can be answered, moreover, in a word--'Everything'--and everyone will accept this answer as true.”
― W.V.O. Quine

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“Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption. ”
― W.V.O. Quine