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	Willard Van Orman Quine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Willard Van Orman Quine (June 25, 1908 – December 25, 2000), usually cited as W.V. Quine or W.V.O. Quine but known to his friends as Van, was one of the most influential American philosophers and logicians of the 20th century.
		Quine falls squarely into the analytic philosophy tradition while also being the main proponent of the view that philosophy is not conceptual analysis.
		Quine's criticisms played a major role in the decline of logical positivism although he remained a verificationist, to the point of invoking verificationism to undermine the analytic-synthetic distinction.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Willard_Van_Orman_Quine (3135 words)

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		Willard Van Orman Quine’s Word and Object (1960) is a study in the philosophy of language, describing how linguistic analysis may be used as a method of resolving philosophical problems.
		Quine argues that the meaning of a sentence as a stimulus to verbal behavior is defined by what type of response it arouses in the listener or reader.
		Quine argues that it is not necessary for propositions to function as vehicles of truth for eternal sentences, because eternal sentences may express their own truth.
	www.angelfire.com /md2/timewarp/quine.html (1086 words)

	Willard Van Orman Quine Obituaries (part 1)
		Willard Van Orman Quine, considered one of the leading thinkers of the 20th century in the fields of mathematical logic and the philosophy of language, died Monday in Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
		Quine's hope for that project, and for the resulting confluence of philosophy and empirical research, rested on his conviction that philosophy's job is to serve as handmaiden to natural science.
		Willard Van Orman Quine was born the son of an engineer in Akron, Ohio, on June 25, 1908, the second of two brothers.
	www.wvquine.org /wvq-obit.html (9657 words)

	Oberlin Alumni Magazine > Spring 2001 Vol.96 No.4
		Quine, who was captivated, imbued himself in Russell's viewpoints and decided immediately to major in mathematics with a minor in the philosophy of math.
		Quine's position was that philosophy was contiguous with science, not a separate, privileged field, that could provide an independent foundation for other areas of study.
		Quine was awarded an honorary doctor of letters degree by Oberlin in 1955, and held a dozen and a half other honorary degrees.
	www.oberlin.edu /alummag/oamcurrent/oam_spring01/losses.html (860 words)

	Quine, Willard Van Orman
		Willard Van Orman Quine, who has died aged 92, was arguably the greatest American philosopher of the second half of the 20th century.
		Later, Quine would argue for a more "moderate holism" in which not the whole of science, but sizeable chunks of it, were the units for empirical revision.
		Quine agreed with Wittgenstein and with the pragmatist John Dewey that language is a form of behaviour.
	www.angelfire.com /zine2/jungchiu/Quine.html (1731 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Quine, 92, was major philosopher of 20th century
		Willard Van Orman Quine was best-known for his contributions to the theory of knowledge and logic.
		Willard Van Orman Quine, one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century, died on Christmas Day at the age of 92.
		Parsons, who studied with Quine as both an undergraduate and a graduate student, said that he was always impressed by Quine's high intellectual standards and his habit of reading student papers with extreme thoroughness.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2001/01.18/09-quine.html (875 words)

	Quine
		He later studied the foundations of mathematical logic with Alfred North Whitehead at Harvard University, where Quine himself became professor of philosophy in 1936.
		In "Two Dogmas of Empricism" (1951), for example, Quine criticized excessive reliance on the analytic/synthetic distinction, maintaining that a whole system of beliefs must be held up for scrutiny in the light of new experience.
		Although his own positions are commonly physicalistic, Quine's major contribution to contemporary American philosophy has been the consistent application of analytic methods.
	www.philosophypages.com /ph/quin.htm (245 words)

	Willard Van Orman Quine, Mathematical Logic
		Quine claims to be accessible to those with no previous exposure to formal logic, or ``special training'' in mathematics, and on the whole he succeeds.
		Here we also are treated to one of Quine's homilies on the distinction between use and mention, and the associated conventions of quotation, which prevent (among other things) the confusion between Boston, which is a city on the Atlantic seaboard, and ``Boston,'' a word of two syllables.
		Quine's expedient is to restrict abstraction from ``all entities'' to ``all membership-eligible entities,'' i.e.
	cscs.umich.edu /~crshalizi/reviews/mathematical-logic (1782 words)

	Quine biography
		Willard (or Van as he became known to his friends) was the youngest son of the family.
		Quine was appointed onto the staff at Harvard in 1936 as an Instructor in Philosophy.
		The year 1940 was an exciting one for Quine at Harvard for in that year both Carnap and Tarski visited Harvard and the three debated logical positivism.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Biographies/Quine.html (1891 words)

	In Praise Of A Philosopher: Willard Van Orman Quine
		In Praise Of A Philosopher: Willard Van Orman Quine
		Quine made a career of exposing such frauds, even when the schemes had worked for years.
		Quine pounced on analytic statements and dismantled the distinction.
	www.useless-knowledge.com /1234/dec/article225.html (1123 words)

	Willard Van Orman Quine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Quine is an American philosopher, often acknowledged as the most influential American philosopher of the past half century, and one of the most influential philosophers of the entire 20th century.
		Quine's writings are a joy to read, for their crisp and aphoristic style.
		While Quine was known for catchy aphorisms, I find more inspiring his attitude expressed in the following longer "maxim", as he called it: "It is a basic maxim for serious thought that anything that can be said can, with perseverance, be said clearly".
	c2.com /cgi/wiki?WillardVanOrmanQuine (420 words)

	obits.com, The Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for Willard Van Orman Quine 1908-2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Professor W. Quine was recognized as a world leader in mathematical logic, set theory, and the philosophy of language.
		Van Quine, as he was known to his friends since high school years, was born in Akron, Ohio on Anti-Christmas (June 25) 1908.
		He is survived by his children Elizabeth Quine Roberts of Anchorage (Alaska), Norma Quine of London (England), Douglas Boynton Quine of Bethel (Connecticut), and Margaret Quine McGovern of San Francisco (California).
	obits.com /quinewv.html (572 words)

	Willard Van Orman Quine, 1908--2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Quine's logical armamentarium was unrivalled, and he deployed it on behalf of some of the most peculiar notions one could hope to run across, such as the infamous Quine-Duhem thesis (that no theory can ever be refuted).
		He calls to mind excruciatingly formal suppers from ages now past when the fish-knife was de rigueur and where a scandalized hush would greet any lapse of punctillio.
		Or rather, one of the exceedingly refined diners at those suppers, for whom the proper use of the fish-knife is automatic, second nature and almost first; for one of the qualities of Quine's writing is that he makes everything, not least his minute clarity and precision, seem easy, obvious and spontaneous.
	cscs.umich.edu /~crshalizi/notebooks/quine.html (249 words)

	Quine, W. V. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Much of Quine’s philosophical work deals with the implications of viewing language as a logical system.
		He argued that any statement can be held to be true no matter what is observed, provided that adjustments are made elsewhere in a language’s system of reference.
		Quine drew attention to “ontic commitments” in language systems, i.e., their tendency to commit their users to the existence of certain things.
	www.bartleby.com /65/qu/Quine-Wi.html (250 words)

	Willard van Orman Quine Guest Book Volume 1 by Douglas Boynton Quine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Quine, I'm not always able to deal with "certainties"!), and remember that this was the class in which a student came up with a way to diagram the intersection of three sets (or something like that - I'm sure Prof.
		Quine, as a mathematician of sorts, may be interested in reading the latest addition to my homepage at http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Docks/2314/primes.html which is a fairly brief interesting proof that there are infinitely many prime numbers, and which is different from the usual proof due to Euclid.
		Quine has not been able to keep up with the latest literature (the books about him alone fill a bookcase 6 feet tall and several feet wide); I would suggest checking with one of his colleagues or perhaps a reader will observe your note in this W. Quine Guestbook and reply.
	www.quine.org /guestwq1.html (12316 words)

	MavicaNET - Quine, Willard Van Orman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		"Quine has made many contributions to logic, but in his philosophical writings he focuses on meaning and existence - the age old concerns of philosopher-man - and he thus continues the traditions begun by the ancient Greeks. Because he is America's most influential living philosopher, many of his concerns have become major concerns of his contemporaries."
		Quine is the most famous, most widely cited, living philosopher.
		In particular, in his celebrated essay `Two Dogmas of Empiricism' he made a devastating attack on the analytic/synthetic distinction, which forced those in the analytical tradition to re-assess the fundamental concepts and purpose of epistemology and the theory of meaning.
	www.mavicanet.com /lite/deu/7477.html (422 words)

	Willard Van Orman Quine home page by Douglas Boynton Quine
		Quine has made many contributions to logic, but in his philosophical writings he focuses on meaning and existence - the age old concerns of philosopher-man - and he thus continues the traditions begun by the ancient Greeks.
		Ullian wrote Parsons and Atkinson that the thesis was begun with Quine and that White was a replacement while Quine was on leave at Princeton in 1956-57.
		In 2001, he was the editor of Philosophy of Quine (Five Volume Set of reprinted articles and reviews on Quine) - view the full table of contents at WVQ table of contents.
	www.wvquine.org (4450 words)

	The Connection.org : The Life and Philosophy of Willard Van Orman Quine
		The Harvard philosopher Willard van Orman Quine had the question mark on his typewriter replaced with a logical symbol.
		Asked by a reporter if he missed the question mark, Quine replied, "I deal in certainties." Quine's certainties were of the scientific sort: he famously said that "philosophy of science is philosophy enough." For Quine, this meant that philosophy had to give up its pretenses and recognize that it had no special claim to truth.
		Willard Quine died on Christmas Day at the age of 92.
	www.theconnection.org /shows/2001/01/20010110_a_main.asp (262 words)

	Douglas Boynton Quine - home page
		Douglas Boynton Quine is a family man, scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and explorer.
		Current Boynton and Quine family trees are provided with all descendents of my grandparents.
		Ancestors are listed as far back as known (8 generations back for Quine family members and 32 generations back Boynton for family members).
	www.quinefamily.org (767 words)

	Willard Van Orman Quine- Review
		Willard van Orman Quine", set up by his son, Douglas Boynton Quine.
		Quine’s son makes an explicit appeal for updated information, and you can subscribe to a service that will notify you of any updates.
		Nonetheless, Douglas B. Quine has set up the most useful site for material on Willard van Orman Quine; this is definitely the place to start for on-line information on this important philosopher.
	www.apa.udel.edu /apa/archive/newsletters/v97n1/computers/quine.asp (520 words)

	Willard van Orman Quine Guest Book Volume 2 by Douglas Boynton Quine
		Quine, While a graduate student in simuliid cytotaxonomy (identification of fl flies using giant chromosomes) in the early 1950's I became interested in the theoretical relationship between Psychology and Biology.
		The more one is familiar to some particular language, the sharper one's reserve or enthusiasm for its expressions converge into philosophical research, nevertheless without acquiring the sense of writing litterature or writing its history, but simply investigating its privacy, at the step it actually exists.
		Wittgenstein and Quine differ on this, on meaning and translation - what is private in language is its user's insight and interlinguistic reserve, so to say.
	www.quine.org /guestwq2.html (12056 words)

	Willard Van Orman Quine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In Word and Object (1960) Quine proposed the indeterminacy of radical translation, on which a single sentence must always be taken to have more than one different meaning.
		Author of the popular textbook Mathematical Logic (1940), Quine also applied the techniques of formal reasoning in The Ways of Paradox (1966), and Ontological Relativity (1969), holding that the ontological commitments of any view can be determined by examining the entities over which a formal language expressing it is employed to quantify.
		More recent expositions of Quine's philosophy appear in The Roots of Reference (1973) and Pursuit of Truth (1990).
	www.philosophyprofessor.com /philosophers/willard-van-orman-quine.php (270 words)

	Willard van Orman Quione at Erratic Impact's Philosophy Research Base
		Willard van Orman Quione at Erratic Impact's Philosophy Research Base
		Quine is probably the most important analytic philosopher since the 1950's, when he published the seminal essay "The Two Dogmas of Empiricism".
		This essay, which stands as the foundation for virtually all work in the subsequent tradition of Quine and Davidson, is only about 25 pages long, but one would be hard-pressed to find any other single essay in the last century that has generated such a radical 'revolution' in analytic philosophy...
	www.erraticimpact.com /~analytic/quine.htm (91 words)

	Quine Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Willard Van Orman Quine (1908-) was born in Akron, Ohio.
		As an undergraduate at Oberlin Quine concentrated on mathematics and mathematical philosophy, especially the works of Peano, Russell, and Whitehead.
		Upon his return to the U.S. in 1936, Quine went back to Harvard as an instructor in philosophy.
	www.wpunj.edu /cohss/Philosophy/LOVERS/bio45.htm (151 words)

	KLI Theory Lab - Authors - Willard Van Orman Quine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		KLI Theory Lab - Authors - Willard Van Orman Quine
		Quine, W.V. Carnap, R. Dear Carnap, Dear Van: The Quine-Carnap Correspondence and Related Work.
		In Quine, Ontological Relativity and Other Essays, 69—90.
	www.kli.ac.at /theorylab/AuthPage/Q/QuineWVO.html (64 words)

	Triskelion Ltd - home page (c) 2006
		Boynton and Quine family guest books by DBQ
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		Copyright (c) 1997 - 2006 by Douglas Boynton Quine
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