The 1996 Laureates / Creative Arts and Moral Sciences Category / Philosophy
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Willard Van Orman Quine

U.S.A. / June 25, 1908 - 2000
Philosopher; Professor Emeritus, Harvard University

Developing countless sensational arguments filled with insight covering fields from epistemology to philosophy of language and science, Dr. Quine has created a new paradigm of philosophy for the second half of the 20th century.

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
1908
Born in Akron, Ohio, U.S.A.
1930
Graduate from Oberlin College and take a degree in Mathematics
1932
Ph.D., in Philosophy at Harvard University and take a degree in Ethics under the guidance of A.N. Whitehead
1948
Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University
1957
President, Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association
1978
Professor Emeritus, Harvard University

AWARDS AND HONORS
1948-1978
Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University
1956-1959
Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton
1970
N.M. Butler Gold Medal, Columbia University
1991
Frantisek Polacky Gold Medal, Czech Republic
1993
Rolf Schock Prize in philosophy, Sweden
1993
Charles University Silver Medal, Prague
Honorarydoctorate:
Oberlin College, Washington University, University of Chicago, Oxford University, Cambridge University
Member:
American Philosophical Society, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, British Academy

MAJOR WORKS
1950
Methods of logic
1951
Two Dogmas of Empiricism
1953
From a logical point of view
1960
Word and Object
1970
Philosophy of logic
1974
The roots of reference