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.
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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)
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