F. Harold Van Orman
Frederick Harold Van Orman (26 September 1884 – 6 January 1958 was a politician from the U.S. state of Indiana.
Between 1925 and 1929 he served as Lieutenant Governor of Indiana.
Robert McNaughton
Robert Forbes McNaughton, Jr.( 1924–2014) was an American mathematician, logician, and computer scientist with several key contributions in formal languages, grammars and rewriting systems, and word combinatorics.
McNaughton was originally from Brooklyn, and earned a bachelor's degree from Columbia University.
He completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University; his dissertation," On Establishing the Consistency of Systems", was supervised by Willard Van Orman Quine.
He taught at the University of Pennsylvania and then at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
He died in 2014 in Troy, New York.
Hoàng Cầm (poet)
Hoàng Cầm( 22 February 1922 – 6 May 2010) was pen name of Bùi Tằng Việt, a Vietnamese poet, playwright, and novelist.
He is best remembered for his poems such as" Bên kia sông ĐuốngLá diêu bông" or the plays" Kiều Loan" and" Hận Nam Quan".
Being involved in the Nhân Văn affair, Hoàng Cầm retreated from the Vietnam Association of Writers in 1958, later in 2007 he was awarded the National Prize for Literature and Art by the Government of Vietnam.
Vic Dudman
Victor Howard(" Vic") Dudman( 1935–2009) was an Australian logician based at Macquarie University.
He was greatly influenced by Willard Van Orman Quine on whose work he based his undergraduate logic courses.
He is particularly noted for his views on the interpretation of the material conditional.
David Lewis, a frequent visitor to Australian departments of logic, once noted" If Dudman's view is correct, and I can not at the moment see what is wrong with it, then almost everything I have written on conditionals is mistaken".
Jean Curthoys saw through the press and wrote an introduction to" Victor Dudman's Grammar and Semantics"( Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
Gloria Origgi
Gloria Origgi( born 1967) is an Italian philosopher at the CNRS in Paris( Institut Jean Nicod) who works on the theory of mind, epistemology and social sciences applied to new technology.
She is the founder( in 2002) and director of the innovative project, a portal where many international virtual conferences in the social and cognitive sciences are being organized.
She is the author of the book' Reputation', published by Princeton University Press in 2017.
Gloria Origgi has previously published a book on the American philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine," Introduzione a Quine", Laterza, 2000.
She has edited the collection of essays" Text- e.
Text in the age of the Internet", Palgrave, 2006, based on a web conference that she co-organized with Noga Arikha and the research team of the library of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris( contributors include Umberto Eco, Jason Epstein, Dan Sperber and Theodore Zeldin).
She has published numerous articles on social epistemology and cultural issues in English, French and Italian.
Among her books:" Qu'est- ce que la confiance?"
VRIN, 2008;" La réputation", PUF 2015( translated into Italian and into English)
Her first work in Italian," La Figlia della Gallina Nera" was published in Italy by" Nottetempo"( 2008).
She also writes for various newspapers and cultural magazines such as Il Fatto Quotidiano, MicroMega, Il Sole 24 Ore.
Ward Van Orman
Ward Tunte Van Orman( September 2, 1894 in Lorain, Ohio – March 11, 1978) was an American engineer, inventor and balloonist.
A lifelong employee of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company credited with invention of Goodyear's inflatable life raft and self- sealing fuel tank, Van Orman set an unprecedented record of winning five annual National Balloon Races( including the first ever Litchfield Trophy issued by Goodyear's Paul Litchfield in 1925), participating in ten and winning three International Gordon Bennett Races( 1926, 1929, 1930).
Willard Van Orman Quine
Willard Van Orman Quine( known to intimates as" Van"; June 25, 1908 – December 25, 2000) was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition, recognized as" one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century."
From 1930 until his death 70 years later, Quine was continually affiliated with Harvard University in one way or another, first as a student, then as a professor of philosophy and a teacher of logic and set theory, and finally as a professor emeritus who published or revised several books in retirement.
He filled the Edgar Pierce Chair of Philosophy at Harvard from 1956 to 1978.
A 2009 poll conducted among analytic philosophers named Quine as the fifth most important philosopher of the past two centuries.
He won the first Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy in 1993 for" his systematical and penetrating discussions of how learning of language and communication are based on socially available evidence and of the consequences of this for theories on knowledge and linguistic meaning."
In 1996 he was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy for his" outstanding contributions to the progress of philosophy in the 20th century by proposing numerous theories based on keen insights in logic, epistemology, philosophy of science and philosophy of language."
Quine falls squarely into the analytic philosophy tradition while also being the main proponent of the view that philosophy is not conceptual analysis but the abstract branch of the empirical sciences.
His major writings include" Two Dogmas of Empiricism"( 1951), which attacked the traditional analytic- synthetic distinction between propositions and advocated a form of semantic holism, and" Word and Object"( 1960), which further developed these positions and introduced Quine's famous indeterminacy of translation thesis, advocating a behaviorist theory of meaning.
He also developed an influential naturalized epistemology that tried to provide" an improved scientific explanation of how we have developed elaborate scientific theories on the basis of meager sensory input."
He is also important in philosophy of science for his" systematic attempt to understand science from within the resources of science itself" and for his conception of philosophy as continuous with science.
This led to his famous quip that" philosophy of science is philosophy enough."
In philosophy of mathematics, he and his Harvard colleague Hilary Putnam developed the" Quine – Putnam indispensability thesis," an argument for the reality of mathematical entities.
Shunsuke Tsurumi
After graduating from Harvard University, an A.B., Honors Harvard University in 1942, he was deported on a personnel exchange vessel with his sister Tsurumi Kazuko, Takeda Kiyoko, and Maruyama Masao.
Tsurumi taught at Kyoto University.
In 1946, he started the magazine" Shiso- no KagakuScience of Thought") with six other people including those who were onboard the same deportation vessel with him Takeda, Maruyama and his sister Kazuko.
He was a member of the anti-Vietnam War group Beheiren.
" Shiso no kagaku" was among numerous magazines popped up post -war period, when common people wanted to express themselves.
It was unique as it accepted essays from anybody with no discrimination on the authors' academic or sociological background, not limited to politically active students, and printed those on their pages written by nurses, teachers, or social workers for poor factory areas in Tokyo.
Tsutsumi was the chief editor of" Shiso no kagaku", which editors freely discussed on their theme and selection of articles for each issue.
He was one of the first students of Willard Van Orman Quine.
He died on July 20, 2015 of pneumonia in Kyoto, Japan.
Also thought as a literature and philosophy historian, he wrote several books and articles:
Hoàng Cầm (general)
Đỗ Văn Cầm, nom de guerre Hoàng Cầm( April 30, 1920 – August 19, 2013), was a Vietnamese General.
He was born in Cao Sơn, Ứng Hòa, Hà Đông.
He led the 4th Corps( Vietnam People's Army)( NVA IV) against the South Vietnamese in the 1974 battle of Phuoc Long.
Ray Van Orman
Ray Van Orman( January 25, 1884 – May 24, 1954) was an American veterinarian and college football and lacrosse coach.
He served as the head lacrosse and football coach at Johns Hopkins University, from 1920 to 1935 and 1926 to 1935 respectively, and the head lacrosse coach at Cornell University from 1940 to 1949.
Van Orman was inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1992.

Question: Were Willard Van Orman Quine and Hoàng Cầm (General) of the same nationality?
Answer: no