Willard V. O. Quine

  • b. June 25, 1908

  • "America's most influential living philosopher"

  • A System of Logistic (1934), Mathematical Logic (1940), Elementary Logic (1941), On What There Is (1948), From a Logical Point of View (1953), Word and Object (1960), Set Theory and Its Logic (1963), Philosophy of Logic (1970)

  • Canonizer of logic

Herbert A. Simon

  • b. June 15, 1916

  • "In ten years, the computer will be the world champion at chess" (1958)

  • Turing Award in Computer Science (1975), Nobel Prize in Economic Science (1978), National Medal of Science (1986), American Psychological Association Award (1993), AI Research Excellence Award (1995), American Society of Public Administration Waldo Award (1995)

  • Defender of "procedural rationality"
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