A Brief History of Analytic Philosophy by Stephen P. Schwartz

Author:Stephen P. Schwartz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2011-10-03T16:00:00+00:00

Davidson owes as much to Quine as he does to Tarski. He was a student of Quine's at Harvard in 1940 when Carnap, Russell, and Tarski were there. Harvard (Figure 5.1) then was the world center of formal philosophy and Davidson picked up on it.

Figure 5.1 Emerson Hall, Harvard University. The philosophy department occupies the entire building on Harvard Yard. From the time of William James this has been a center of philosophy in America. Photo provided by Ellen Usher.

Reading Carnap as a graduate student [at Harvard] had helped to persuade me that traditional philosophical problems could be treated with clarity and insight using the formal resources of logic. In 1940 Carnap taught at Harvard. I attended his lectures, and even met him briefly. Bertrand Russell, Tarski, and, of course, Quine were all there that year. (Davidson 1999, p. 34)

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