Nelson Goodman
Nelson Goodman | |
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| Born | Henry Nelson Goodman August 7, 1906 Somerville, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | November 25, 1998 (aged 92) Needham, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Education | |
| Education | Harvard University (BA, PhD) |
| Thesis | A Study of Qualities (1941) |
| C. I. Lewis | |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Analytic Nominalism | |
| Institutions | University of Pennsylvania Harvard University |
Doctoral students | Herbert G. Bohnert, Israel Scheffler |
Notable students | Sylvain Bromberger, Noam Chomsky, Sydney Morgenbesser, Hilary Putnam, Stephen Stich |
Main interests | Logic, epistemology, metaphysics, induction, counterfactuals, mereology, aesthetics, philosophy of science, philosophy of language |
Notable ideas | New riddle of induction, Goodman–Leonard calculus of individuals, counterfactual conditional, Goodman's method, languages of art, irrealism |
Henry Nelson Goodman (7 August 1906 – 25 November 1998) was an American philosopher, known for his work on counterfactuals, mereology, the problem of induction, irrealism, and aesthetics.