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Willard Van Orman Quine (1908-2000) (fwd)

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Subject: [HM] Willard Van Orman Quine (1908-2000)


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                  W.V.O. QUINE 1908 - 2000

The death is announced of Willard Van Orman Quine on December 25, 2000,
after a brief illness.

Quine was born on June 25 1908. He graduated from Oberlin College Ohio
in 1930 and graduated Ph.D. from Harvard in 1932.  He served for four
years during the World War II in United States Navy Intelligence.  He
was named Edgar Pierce Professor at Harvard in 1956, and remained in
that position until his retirement in 1978.  He will remembered by
logicians for his systems NF ('New Foundations for Mathematical Logic',
1937) and ML (Mathematical Logic, 1940, 1951), as well as for Set
Theory & Its Logic (1963, 1969), for a score of more philosophical
books including Word and Object (1960) and Philosophy of Logic (1970,
1981), and for innumerable further contributions on a wide variety of
logical and philosophical topics.

Quine was President of the Association for Symbolic Logic from 1953-1955
and President of the American Philosophical Association in 1957.  He was
elected Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 1959, Fellow of
the National Academy of Sciences in 1977, and a Member of the Institut
de France in 1978.  He was awarded the Charles University gold medal in
1993, the Rolf Schock Prize in 1993, and the Kyoto Prize in 1996.  Quine
was the recipient of many other honours and awards, including 18 honorary
degrees.

An obituary notice by his son Douglas (from which most of the above
information is drawn) is to be found at

http://www.triskelion-ltd.com/drquine/wv-quine.html#PPAPEK

See also December 29, 2000's edition of The New York Times at

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/29/arts/29QUIN.html