Nelson Goodman
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.
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Born | Henry Nelson Goodman August 7, 1906 |
Died | November 25, 1998 92) | (aged
Education | Harvard University (PhD, 1941) |
Era | 20th-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Analytic Nominalism |
Thesis | A Study of Qualities (1941) |
Doctoral advisor | C. I. Lewis |
Doctoral students | Israel Scheffler |
Other notable students | Noam Chomsky, Sydney Morgenbesser, Stephen Stich, Hilary Putnam |
Main interests | Logic, 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 |
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