Willard Van Orman Quine

'' 'Willard Van Orman Quine' '' was one the leading

Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

'' 'Willard Van Orman Quine' '' was one the leading philosophers and logicians of the

Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

Although the germ of his argument for the Reduction Thesis lay in his 1870 paper “Description of a Notation for the Logic of Relatives,” the Thesis was for over a century doubted by many, especially after the publication of a proof by Willard Van Orman Quine that all relations could be constructed exclusively from dyadic ones.

Nobody Knows Nothing 2009

This concern with empirical content also explains why Bridgman was not content with the mainstream post-positivist philosophical discourse on concept-formation and empirical significance, exemplified by the works of Carl Hempel and Willard Van Orman Quine.

Operationalism Chang, Hasok 2009

The Passing of Willard Van Orman Quine yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'The Passing of Willard Van Orman Quine'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Anglo-American philosophy has been a barren wasteland for writers of fiction and poetry: analytical philosophy simply refuses to lend itself to works of imagination.

The Passing of Willard Van Orman Quine 2008

The death of Willard Van Orman Quine eight years ago hardly echoed through the literary world. '

The Passing of Willard Van Orman Quine 2008

Willard Van Orman Quine, a devotee of Bertrand Russell, would probably have used stronger language.

The Passing of Willard Van Orman Quine 2008

It is from an obituary by Morton White for the great philosopher and mathematician Willard Van Orman Quine.

A Little Math Puzzle to Ponder - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

It is from an obituary by Morton White for the great philosopher and mathematician Willard Van Orman Quine.

A Little Math Puzzle to Ponder - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

As Willard Van Orman Quine pointed out: "... people feel drawn to a ‎ mentalistic account of language, despite the conspicuous fact that language is a social ‎ enterprise ....". ‎

REGIME CHANGE, LANGUAGE CHANGE 2006