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    Nelson Goodman

    American philosopher

    Henry Nelson Goodman was an American philosopher, known for his work on counterfactuals, mereology, the problem of induction, irrealism, and aesthetics. Wikipedia

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    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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    Nelson Goodman (1906-1998) was one of the most influential twentieth-century American philosophers. Goodman's philosophical interests ranged from formal logic and the philosophy of science to the philosophy of art.
    • The Calculus of Individuals in Its Different Versions

      The Calculus of Individuals in its different versions. The Calculus of Individuals that Leonard and Goodman present in their 1940 article axiomatizes a theory of parthood based on the single primitive for the discreteness of two individuals. Parthood is defined using the notion of discreteness so that two individuals are discrete if and only if they share no part in common.

    • Goodman's Aesthetics

      He was a rigorous philosopher who, however, never lacked the capacity to talk to artists and researchers in other fields. ... "Metaphor," Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 55, pp. 273-294. Borges, Jorge, 1962, "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote ... Elgin, Catherine, 1997, Nelson Goodman's Philosophy of Art (The Philosophy of ...

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    Goodman, along with Stanislaw Lesniewski, is the founder of the contemporary variant of nominalism, which argues that philosophy, logic, and mathematics should dispense with set theory.Goodman's nominalism was driven purely by ontological considerations. After a long and difficult 1947 paper coauthored with W. V. O. Quine, Goodman ceased to trouble himself with finding a way to reconstruct ...
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  5. philosophyprofessor.com

    Who was Nelson Goodman? Nelson Goodman, born as Henry Nelson Goodman, was a luminary in the landscape of 20th-century philosophy. With a Ph.D. from Harvard University, Goodman's academic prowess was evident from his early days.His intellectual pursuits took him through various domains of philosophy, where he left a lasting impact through his innovative theories and publications.
  6. britannica.com

    Other articles where Nelson Goodman is discussed: aesthetics: Symbolism in art: Nelson Goodman of the United States is one such philosopher. His Languages of Art (1968) was the first work of analytical philosophy to produce a distinct and systematic theory of art. Goodman's theory has attracted considerable attention, the more so in that it is an…
  7. aesthetics-online.org

    The American philosopher Nelson Goodman died on November 25, 1998, in Needham, Massachusetts, at the age of 92. ... Essays in Honor of Nelson Goodman (1972), edited by Richard Rudner and Israel Scheffler, The Philosophy of Nelson Goodman (1997), ... He was a member of the World Society for the Protection of Animals and other societies dedicated ...
  8. rep.routledge.com

    Nelson Goodman was an American philosopher who wrote important works in metaphysics, aesthetics and epistemology. Throughout his work runs a concern with the ways that the symbols we construct inform the facts that we find, and structure our understanding of them. Different symbol systems yield irreconcilable structures.
  9. Nelson Goodman (1906-1998) was one of the outstanding thinkers of the 20th century. In a memorial note, Hilary Putnam considers him to be ""one of the two or three greatest analytic philosophers of the post-World War II period"". Goodman has left his mark in many fields of philosophical investigation: Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Logic, Metaphysics, the General Theory of Symbols ...
  10. plato.stanford.edu

    He was a rigorous philosopher who, however, never lacked the capacity to talk to artists and researchers in other fields. ... "Metaphor," Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 55, pp. 273-294. Borges, Jorge, 1962, "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote ... Elgin, Catherine, 1997, Nelson Goodman's Philosophy of Art (The Philosophy of ...
  11. encyclopedia.com

    GOODMAN, NELSON(1906-1998) Nelson Goodman, the distinguished American philosopher of science and language, was born in Massachusetts in 1906. He received a bachelor of science degree from Harvard in 1928 and took his Ph.D. Source for information on Goodman, Nelson (1906-1998): Encyclopedia of Philosophy dictionary.
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