W.V.O. Quine Centenary
September 5th, 2008
At left, W.V.O. Quine (1908-2000)
Good afternoon, readers! There’s an important conference coming up here in the department, and I wanted to let readers know about it.
This year is the centenary of the birth of one of America’s most famous and influential philosophers and mathematicians, W.V.O. Quine.
To celebrate this centenary, there will be a conference held here at Harvard on 25 & 26 October, “Quine at 100: A Centenary Conference.” The conference will be held in Emerson Hall 210, and it promises to be an exciting event. (For a map showing the location of Emerson Hall, please click here. For information on getting to Harvard University, please click here.)
The confirmed list of speakers, so far, includes:
- Daniel Dennett, Tufts University
- Gary Ebbs, Indiana University
- Catherine Elgin, Harvard University
- Dagfinn Føllesdall, Stanford/Oslo
- Alexander George, Amherst College
- Peter Hylton, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Charles Parsons, Harvard University
- Huw Price, University of Sydney
- Thomas Ricketts, University of Pittsburgh
For those who may not know much about Quine, the obituary from the Guardian (UK) gives a nice summary of his life and work.
I will post more information about the conference as it becomes available.
September 5th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Jason, Thanks for the early information about the conference. The W. V. Quine website has details of the centennial conferences earlier this year in Europe and the U.S.A. It also includes a wide range of information about Quine’s publications, life, interests, travels and tables of contents of his two new books being published by Harvard University Press later this month: “Confessions of a Confirmed Extensionalist” and “Quine in Dialogue”. – Doug
September 6th, 2008 at 10:59 am
The W. V. Quine home page is: http://www.wvquine.org and it links to all the other pages in that web site.
September 8th, 2008 at 9:02 am
Hi Doug,
You’re welcome! Readers should be sure to check out the W.V. Quine page that Doug maintains, as there is a plethora of material and links on Quine posted there.
Jason
January 13th, 2009 at 3:37 am
Nice post!! bookmarked the site.. really helpful.