George Boolos
American philosopher and mathematical logician / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with George Boole.
George Stephen Boolos (/ˈbuːloʊs/;[1] 4 September 1940 – 27 May 1996) was an American philosopher and a mathematical logician who taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2]
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Born | (1940-09-04)4 September 1940 New York City, New York, U.S. |
Died | 27 May 1996(1996-05-27) (aged 55) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Education | Princeton University (A.B.) Oxford University MIT (PhD, 1966) |
Era | 20th-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Analytic philosophy |
Thesis | The Hierarchy of Constructible Sets of Integers (1966) |
Doctoral advisor | Hilary Putnam |
Main interests | Philosophy of mathematics, mathematical logic |
Notable ideas | Hume's principle Nonfirstorderizability The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever |
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