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Monday, May 23, 2022

Basic timeline of Willard Van Orman Quine

This post is a basic timeline of philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine (1908-2000). There are 14 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• 1908: Born in Akron, Ohio
• 1932: Receives PhD from Harvard University
• 1932: Becomes Harvard Junior Fellow
• 1936: Publishes Truth by Convention
• 1940's: Serves in the U.S. Navy during World War II
• 1948: Publishes On What There Is
• 1951: Publishes Mathematical Logic
• 1951: Publishes Two Dogmas of Empiricism
• 1956: Publishes Quantifiers and Propositional Attitudes
• 1960: Publishes Word and Object
• 1969: Publishes Epistemology Naturalized
• 1974: Publishes The Roots of Reference
• 1980: Publishes Elementary Logic
• 2000: Died at age 92 in Boston Massachusetts