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Nelson Goodman
Henry Nelson Goodman (7 August 1906, Somerville, Massachusetts – 25 November 1998, Needham, Massachusetts) was an American philosopher, known for his work on counterfactuals, mereology, the problem of induction, irrealism and aesthetics.
Goodman graduated from Harvard University in 1928. During the...
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Fact, Fiction, and Forecast
Hempel's confirmation theory
argued that the solution is to differentiate between hypotheses, which
apply to all things of a certain class, and evidence statements, which
apply to only one thing. Goodman's famous counterargument was to
introduce the...
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Languages of art
Languages of Art: An Approach to a Theory of Symbols is a book by American philosopher Nelson Goodman. It is considered one of the most important works of 20th century aesthetics in the Analytic tradition. Originally published in 1968, it was...
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The structure of appearance
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Langages de l'art
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Of Mind and Other Matters
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Problems and projects
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Ways of worldmaking
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