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...both Leiter and professors within the Harvard philosophy department contend that whatever woes it has suffered began well before the millennium...
...Leiter attributes the "dip" to an intellectual stubbornness that prevailed in the department during the 1960s...
Harvard was home to Willard Van Orman Quine, one of the most influential post-World War II philosophers, who died last year. During the three decades after the war, Leiter said, Quine's prominence was essential to Harvard's dominance of the field...
...said, starting in the 1960s, new strains of thought emerged from Princeton (which Leiter now ranks No. 1) that ran counter to Quine's views, and after Harvard failed to entice Princeton's leading theorists to come to Cambridge, it did not hire other faculty who supported these theories...
...Instead, Leiter says, the University retreated further and further into a dogmatic Quinian stance, solidified by the presence of Burton S. Dreben, a former dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, who advocated Quine's views...