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Harvard was home to Willard Van Orman Quine, one of the most influential post-World War II philosophers, who died last year. During the three decades after the war, Leiter said, Quine's prominence was essential to Harvard's dominance of the field...
DIED. WILLARD VAN ORMAN QUINE, 92, rumpled yet rigorous Harvard philosopher who developed a system of truth and knowledge, in the tradition of Berkeley and Hume, based on radical empiricism: that everything we can know about the world derives only from our sensory perceptions and that anything else we might think exists--ranging from physical objects to metaphysical beliefs--is merely a mental construct that may help predict our perceptions but cannot be known as objectively true; in Boston. His seminal 1951 essay "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" and 1960 book Word and Object built upon the works of such logical...
Willard van Orman Quine, a Harvard professor who was one of the foremost philosophers of the 20th century, died on Dec. 25 at age 92. He lived in Boston...
...powerful individuals and talk-show guests. A centerpiece of the premiere issue is an interview conducted by Oprah with Camille Cosby--wife of Bill Cosby, grieving mother of the murdered Ennis Cosby and, of course, Oprah's close personal friend. O's financial, health, relationship and spiritual experts (Suze Orman, Bob Greene, Philip McGraw, Gary Zukav) are all frequent guests on Oprah's show...
...concur, then swing by The Harvard Bookstore this afternoon, March 13, at 3 p.m. for a reading/booksigning by Willard Van Orman Quine, Emerson Hall's own living legend. Quine (rhymes with wine) is one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th Century, as well as a sparkling prose stylist and extremely brilliant guy. Tune in the following Friday, same time, same place, for a reading/booksigning by Daniel Dennett, M.I.T. philosopher and author of (among other things) Consciousness Explained. Creep on out from behind the Veil of Ignorance and enjoy the philosophical treats the Square has to offer...