Modal logicians

The list Modal logicians includes Saul Kripke, Jaakko Hintikka, Dana Scott, Charles Sanders Peirce and Georg Henrik von Wright. The list consists of 13 members.

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Saul Kripke

American philosopher

Overview: Saul Aaron Kripke (November 13, 1940;– September 15, 2022) was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition. He was a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the ...

Date of birth: 13 November 1940

Date of death: 15 September 2022

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Philosopher

Gender: Male

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Omaha Central High School alumni 48T

Philosophers of logic 129T

American male non-fiction writers 4,581T
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Dana Scott

American logician (born 1932)

Overview: Dana Stewart Scott (born October 11, 1932) is an American logician who is the emeritus Hillman University Professor of Computer Science, Philosophy, and Mathematical Logic at Carnegie Mellon University; ...

Date of birth: 11 October 1932

Age: 92

Nationality: American

Occupation: Mathematician

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21st-century American scientists 433T

20th-century American scientists 1,238T

21st-century American engineers 416T
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Jaakko Hintikka

Finnish philosopher and logician

Overview: Kaarlo Jaakko Juhani Hintikka (12 January 1929 – 12 August 2015) was a Finnish philosopher and logician.

Date of birth: 12 January 1929

Date of death: 12 August 2015

Age: 86 (age at death)

Nationality: Finnish

Occupation: Philosopher

Gender: Male

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20th-century Finnish philosophers 12T

Finnish professors 101T

2015 deaths 9,624T
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Georg Henrik von Wright

Finnish philosopher

Overview: Georg Henrik von Wright (14 June 1916 – 16 June 2003) was a Finnish philosopher.

Date of birth: 14 June 1916

Date of death: 16 June 2003

Age: 87 (age at death)

Nationality: Swedish

Occupation: Writer

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21st-century Finnish philosophers 3T

20th-century Finnish philosophers 12T

Philosophers of logic 129T
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Charles Sanders Peirce

American thinker who founded pragmatism (1839–1914)

Overview: Charles Sanders Peirce ( PURSS; September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism". He was educated ...

Date of birth: 10 September 1839

Date of death: 19 April 1914

Age: 74 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Educator

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Philosophical theists 22T

Panpsychism 23T

Mathematicians from Massachusetts 37T
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Adriane Rini

Philosopher and professor at Massey University, New Zealand

Overview: Adriane Allison Rini is an academic and professor of philosophy at Massey University in New Zealand.

Occupation: Philosopher

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Kuno Lorenz

German philosopher (born 1932)

Overview: Kuno Lorenz (born September 17, 1932 in Vachdorf, Thüringen) is a German philosopher. He developed a philosophy of dialogue, in connection with the pragmatic theory of action of the Erlangen constructivist ...

Date of birth: 17 September 1932

Age: 92

Nationality: German

Occupation: Philosopher

Gender: Male

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German male writers 4,579T

20th-century German philosophers 203T

Game theorists 129T
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Benson Mates

American mathematician

Overview: Benson Mates (May 19, 1919 in Portland, Oregon – May 14, 2009 in Berkeley, California) was an American philosopher, noted for his work in logic, the history of philosophy, and skepticism. Mates studied ...

Date of birth: 19 May 1919

Date of death: 14 May 2009

Age: 89 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Philosopher

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Philosophers from Oregon 6T

Philosophers from California 41T

American logicians 161T
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William Kneale

English logician

Overview: William Calvert Kneale (22 June 1906 – 24 June 1990) was an English logician best known for his 1962 book The Development of Logic, a history of logic from its beginnings in Ancient Greece written with ...

Date of birth: 1905

Date of death: 1990

Age: 84 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Mathematician

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20th-century British philosophers 250T

White's Professors of Moral Philosophy 24T

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George Edward Hughes

Irish logician

Overview: George Edward Hughes (8 June 1918 – 4 March 1994), usually cited as G. E. Hughes, was an Irish-born New Zealand philosopher and logician whose principal scholarly works were concerned with modal logic ...

Date of birth: 8 June 1918

Date of death: 4 March 1994

Age: 75 (age at death)

Nationality: Irish

Occupation: Philosopher

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Ruth Barcan Marcus

American philosopher

Overview: Ruth Barcan Marcus (born Ruth Charlotte Barcan; 2 August 1921 – 19 February 2012) was an American academic philosopher and logician best known for her work in modal and philosophical logic. She ...

Date of birth: 2 August 1921

Date of death: 19 February 2012

Age: 90 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Educator

Gender: Female

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Jewish American mathematicians 42T

Philosophers of logic 129T

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Wim Blok

Dutch logician

Overview: Willem Johannes "Wim" Blok (1947–2003) was a Dutch logician who made major contributions to algebraic logic, universal algebra, and modal logic. His important achievements over the course of his career ...

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Dov Gabbay

British logician

Overview: Dov M. Gabbay (born October 23, 1945) is an Israeli logician. He is Augustus De Morgan Professor Emeritus of Logic at the Group of Logic, Language and Computation, Department of Computer Science, King's ...

Date of birth: 23 October 1945

Age: 79

Nationality: British

Occupation: Philosopher

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20th-century Israeli philosophers 14T

Bar-Ilan University faculty 114T

Logicians 176T