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The Time of My Life: An Autobiography
"Some Pow'r did us the giftie grant/ To see oursels as others can't." With that play on Burns' famous line as a preface, Willard Van Orman Quine sets out to spin the yarn of his life so far. And it is a gift indeed to see one of the world's most famous philosophers as no one else has seen him before. To catch an intimate glimpse of his seminal and controversial theories of
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384 pages
Published
May 12th 2000
by Bradford Book
(first published 1985)
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Disappointing in that it carefully details the events of this important philosopher's life, and though we learn his experiences, we gain no good sense of how his groundbreaking work in logic and philosophy is integrated into his identity. WVQ would no doubt dispute even these terms, but I had hoped for more. What we do get, and what is fun about this book, is the wry sense of humor that marks Quine's Work, and his vast erudition. On the whole, though, Quiddities is a better read on that aspect o
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"Willard Van Orman Quine (June 25, 1908 Akron, Ohio – December 25, 2000) (known to intimates as "Van"), was an American analytic philosopher and logician. From 1930 until his death 70 years later, Quine was affiliated in some way with Harvard University, first as a student, then as a professor of philosophy and a teacher of mathematics, and finally as an emeritus elder statesman who published or r
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