Nelson Goodman (1906-1998).
American philosopher, born in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Received his Ph.D. degree from Harvard in 1941.
He taught at Tufts (1945-46), the University of Pennsylvania (1946–64), and Brandeis University (1964–67) before becoming professor of philosophy at Harvard (1967).
A proponent of nominalism, he has worked with theories of inductive logic and helped to identify strategic problems in many areas of philosophy.
He has argued that philosophy should work to give precise structural descriptions of the world.
His work on representationalism has involved analysis of visual arts, musical notation, and maps.
He died in december 1998, at the age of 92, after a long illness.
Table of Contents
- 1 Major Works of Nelson Goodman
- 2 Videos
- 3 Related Products
- 3.1 Languages of Art
- 3.2 Ways of Worldmaking
- 3.3 Fact, Fiction, and Forecast: Fourth Edition
- 3.4 Of Mind and Other Matters
- 3.5 The Structure of Appearance (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science)
- 3.6 Nelson Goodman (Volume 2) (Philosophy Now)
- 3.7 Logic and Art: Essays in Honor of Nelson Goodman
- 3.8 Stan the Man Musial - an Original Life Story
- 3.9 Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society
- 3.10 Relativism (New Problems of Philosophy)
Major Works of Nelson Goodman
The Structure of Appearance (1951)
– Languages of Art (1968)
– Problems and Projects (1971)
– Ways of Worldmaking (1978),
– Fact, Fiction and Forecast
– Of Mind and Other Matters (1984)
– Reconceptions in Philosophy, with Catherine Elgin (1988)
Videos
Languages of Art
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- Goodman, Nelson (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 296 Pages - 06/01/1976 (Publication Date) - Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. (Publisher)
Ways of Worldmaking
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- Goodman, Nelson (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 160 Pages - 06/15/1978 (Publication Date) - Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. (Publisher)
Fact, Fiction, and Forecast: Fourth Edition
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- Goodman, Nelson (Author)
Of Mind and Other Matters
- Used Book in Good Condition
- Goodman, Nelson (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 222 Pages - 01/31/1984 (Publication Date) - Harvard University Press (Publisher)
The Structure of Appearance (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science)
- Goodman, Nelson (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 348 Pages - 09/30/1977 (Publication Date) - Springer (Publisher)
Nelson Goodman (Volume 2) (Philosophy Now)
- Used Book in Good Condition
- Cohnitz, Daniel (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 296 Pages - 02/20/2006 (Publication Date) - McGill-Queen's University Press (Publisher)
Logic and Art: Essays in Honor of Nelson Goodman
- Hardcover Book
- English (Publication Language)
- 332 Pages - 06/01/1972 (Publication Date) - Macmillan General Reference (Publisher)
Stan the Man Musial - an Original Life Story
- Hardcover Book
- Irv Goodman (Author)
- 05/12/1961 (Publication Date) - Nelson (Publisher)
Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Goodman, Paul (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 313 Pages - 12/13/2011 (Publication Date) - NYRB Classics (Publisher)
Relativism (New Problems of Philosophy)
- Baghramian, Maria (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 332 Pages - 10/08/2019 (Publication Date) - Routledge (Publisher)
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