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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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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^Van Gelder, Lawrence (30 May 1996). "George Boolos, 55, Philosopher". NY Times.
him, "And tell us, Mr. Boolos, what does the analytical hierarchy have to do with the real world?" Without hesitating Boolos replied, "It's part of it"...
Notable graduates of the BPhil include: Cora Diamond, Daniel Dennett, GeorgeBoolos, Galen Strawson, G. A. Cohen, J. J. C. Smart, Patricia Churchland, Peter...
Boulos (Arabic: بولس or بولص), also transliterated Boulus, Boolos, Bulos, Bulus etc., is the Arabic form of the name Paul. It can be used as a male given...
non-subjunctive, non-contrary-to-fact question that can be asked. Ulam's game GeorgeBoolos, John P. Burgess, Richard C. Jeffrey, Logic, logic, and logic (Harvard...
working on the proof of the incompleteness theorem) and by Alfred Tarski. GeorgeBoolos has since sketched an alternative proof of the first incompleteness...
Collected Works, Vol. 1, Oxford University Press, 1986, p. 363, fn 23. GeorgeBoolos and Richard Jeffrey, 1989. Computability and Logic, 3rd ed. Cambridge...
compared—the Turing machine (still in Boolos' original 4-tuple form) and recursion the other two. GeorgeBoolos, John P. Burgess (1970) Cook (1970) Donald...
spelled out in [Zermelo 1930], and again in a well-known article of GeorgeBoolos [Boolos 1971]." Dana Scott (1974) went further and claimed that: The truth...
the nuances of meaning in natural language. The term was coined by GeorgeBoolos in his paper "To Be is to Be a Value of a Variable (or to Be Some Values...
North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam NL, ISBN 0-7204-2103-9 GeorgeBoolos, John Burgess, and Richard Jeffrey, 2002, Computability and Logic: Fourth...
politician. Mike Sharperson, 34, American baseball player, accident. GeorgeBoolos, 55, American philosopher and mathematical logician, pancreas cancer...
Charles Sanders Peirce David Lewis Donald Davidson Georg Hegel George Boole GeorgeBoolos Gordon Clark Gottfried Leibniz Gottlob Frege Hilary Putnam Immanuel...
University. Retrieved 15 Oct 2011. Van Gelder, Lawrence (30 May 1996). "GeorgeBoolos, 55, philosopher". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 Oct 2011. "Faculty...
Ackermann James Earl Baumgartner Eyo Malachy Paul Bernays Andreas Blass GeorgeBoolos Bourbaki Georg Cantor Paul Cohen Richard Dedekind Paul Finsler Matthew...
the Computer, Harcourt, Inc., San Diego, ISBN 0-15-601391-6 (pbk.) GeorgeBoolos, John P. Burgess, Richard Jeffrey (2002), Computability and Logic: Fourth...