Key facts
- Born
- Henry Nelson Goodman , August 7, 1906, Somerville , Massachusetts , U.S.
- Died
- November 25, 1998 (1998-11-25) (aged 92), Needham , Massachusetts , U.S.
- Education
- Harvard University ( BA , PhD )
- Thesis
- A Study of Qualities (1941)
- Doctoral advisor
- C. I. Lewis
- Era
- 20th-century philosophy
- Region
- Western philosophy
- School
- Analytic , Nominalism
- Institutions
- University of Pennsylvania , Harvard University
- Doctoral students
- Herbert G. Bohnert , Israel Scheffler
- Notable students
- Sylvain Bromberger , Noam Chomsky , Sydney Morgenbesser , Hilary Putnam , Stephen Stich
- Main interests
- Logic , epistemology , metaphysics , induction , counterfactuals , mereology , aesthetics , philosophy of science , philosophy of language
- Notable ideas
- New riddle of induction , Goodman–Leonard calculus of individuals, counterfactual conditional , Goodman's method , languages of art , irrealism
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Nelson
- Family name
- Goodman
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Somerville
- Place of death
- Needham
- Occupation
- gallerist
- Educated at
- Harvard University
- Employer
- Tufts University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
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- date of death
- 1998-11-25
- date of birth
- 1906-08-07
- writing language
- English language
- name in native language
- Nelson Goodman
- has works in the collection
- J. Paul Getty Museum
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Life and career
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nelson Goodman” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.