The New York Times (Friday) has a full page obituary for W.V.O. Quine, an American philosopher, who died Monday at age 92. I wanted to be able to say something more on this occasion, but I just don't have the time today. If you have the NYTimes maybe you should check it out. It's fairly lengthy. He was very important to me, and to the path I took with my college career. I read the essay "Two dogmas of empiricism," which the Times talks about, in my freshman year, and it really set my mind toward philosophy (at least as it was presented in that context.) Not sure how it turned out, but I was surprised to see all the space the Times lavished on his obituary. I guess he was important to some other people as well. I'll have to find that essay and read it again. I think its in my storage space. Yikes. That would be quite an adventure. I haven't been there in years. Anyway, I wonder how I would find it now. Perhaps I'll report back.
I logged on this morning because I wanted to comment to you on Quine's obit in the Boston Globe that I received by fax this AM. I have been travelling this week and a friend who knows my interests faxed me the obit which he knew I would have missed. You and I have never discussed Quine, yet some of my friends know what respect and interest I have for his work. Wierd. Here I feel compelled to share immediately with you something that has impacted me and you are already there. An Alex world. Oooh to die at 92 after having lived that life! No need for me to comment further, you and I must be feeling and thinking similar thoughts.
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- jim 12-29-2000 11:47 pm
I logged on this morning because I wanted to comment to you on Quine's obit in the Boston Globe that I received by fax this AM. I have been travelling this week and a friend who knows my interests faxed me the obit which he knew I would have missed. You and I have never discussed Quine, yet some of my friends know what respect and interest I have for his work. Wierd. Here I feel compelled to share immediately with you something that has impacted me and you are already there. An Alex world. Oooh to die at 92 after having lived that life! No need for me to comment further, you and I must be feeling and thinking similar thoughts.
- jeanne 1-04-2001 3:23 pm