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Willard Van Orman Quine

Enlightened Empiricism

January 8 to March 18, 2008

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For more information, please contact Peter Accardo, 617-496-4027.

January 8 to March 18, 2008 Edison and Newman Room Houghton Library Harvard University

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 analytic and synthetic propositions and advocated a form of semantic holism, and Word and Object (1960) which further developed these positions and introduced the notorious indeterminacy of translation thesis. For more information, please contact Peter Accardo, 617-496-4027

Willard Van Orman Enlightened Empiricism

Quine

Willard Van Orman

Quine

January 8 to March 18, 2008 Edison and Newman Room Houghton Library Harvard University For more information, please contact Peter Accardo, 617-496-4027

Enlightened Empiricism 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, 195678.

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 analytic and synthetic propositions and advocated a form of semantic holism, and Word and Object (1960) which further developed these positions and introduced the notorious indeterminacy of translation thesis.

Willard Van Orman

Enlightened Empiricism

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 analytic and synthetic propositions and advocated a form of semantic holism, and Word and Object (1960) which further developed these positions and introduced the notorious indeterminacy of translation thesis.

Quine

January 18 to March 8, 2008 Edison and Newman Room Houghton Library Harvard University For more information, please contact Peter Accardo, 617-496-4027

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.

willard van orman quine Enlightened Empiricism

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 analytic and synthetic propositions and advocated a form of semantic holism, and Word and Object (1960) which further developed these positions and introduced the notorious indeterminacy of translation thesis.

January 18 - March 8, 2008 Edison and Newman Room - Houghton Library Harvard University

quine

Enlightened Empiricism

quine

Enlightened Empiricism

For more information, please contact Peter Accardo, 617-496-4027