PROFILE OF THE 1996 KYOTO PRIZE LAUREATE
IN
CREATIVE ARTS AND MORAL SCIENCES
Field Selected: Philosophy
NAME : Dr. Willard Van Orman Quine
DATE OF BIRTH : June 25, 1908 age 88 (as of June 28, 1996)
NATIONALITY : U.S.A.
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
1932-1933 Study to Europe, Sheldon Traveling Fellow
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
1956-1957 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
Honorary doctorate: 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
1969 Epistemology Naturalized
1970 Philosophy of logic
1974 The roots of reference