Henry Nelson Goodman lived from 7 August 1906 to 25 November 1998 and was an American philosopher known for his work on counterfactuals, mereology, the problem of induction, irrealism and aesthetics.
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Office HeldFounding director of Harvard Project Zero, 1967 to 1971 1 BirthplaceSomerville, Massachusetts 1 TraditionAnalytic philosophy; nominalism 1 Tradition
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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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Goodman was born in Somerville, Massachusetts
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Goodman, along with Stanislaw Lesniewski, is the founder of the contemporary variant of nominalism, which argues that philosophy, logic, and mathematics should dispense with set theory.
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he was the founding director of Harvard Project Zero, a basic research project in artistic cognition and artistic education. He remained the director for four years
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Henry Nelson Goodman (7 August 1906-25 November 1998) was an American philosopher
In Branch: Logic, Infobox: main_interests
Logic, epistemology, metaphysics, induction, counterfactuals, mereology, aesthetics, philosophy of science, philosophy of language
In Branch: Epistemology, Infobox: main_interests
Logic, epistemology, metaphysics, induction, counterfactuals, mereology, aesthetics, philosophy of science, philosophy of language
In Branch: Metaphysics, Infobox: main_interests
Logic, epistemology, metaphysics, induction, counterfactuals, mereology, aesthetics, philosophy of science, philosophy of language
In Branch: Aesthetics, Infobox: main_interests
Logic, epistemology, metaphysics, induction, counterfactuals, mereology, aesthetics, philosophy of science, philosophy of language
In Branch: Philosophy of Science, Infobox: main_interests
Logic, epistemology, metaphysics, induction, counterfactuals, mereology, aesthetics, philosophy of science, philosophy of language
In Branch: Philosophy of Language, Infobox: main_interests
Logic, epistemology, metaphysics, induction, counterfactuals, mereology, aesthetics, philosophy of science, philosophy of language
In Group: Analytic Epistemology, Infobox: school_tradition
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The new riddle of induction was presented by Nelson Goodman in Fact, Fiction, and Forecast as a successor to Hume's original problem.
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