Nelson Goodman

Nelson Goodman
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 (PhD, 1941)
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic Nominalism[1]
Thesis	A Study of Qualities (1941)
Doctoral advisor	C. I. Lewis
Doctoral students	Israel Scheffler
Other notable students	Noam Chomsky, Sydney Morgenbesser, Stephen Stich, Hilary Putnam
Main interests	Logic, induction, counterfactuals, mereology, aesthetics, philosophy of science, philosophy of language
Notable ideas	New riddle of induction, Goodman–Leonard calculus of individuals,[1] counterfactual conditional, Goodman's method, languages of art, irrealism

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.