Global Information Lookup Global Information

George Boolos information


George Boolos
Born(1940-09-04)4 September 1940
New York City, New York, U.S.
Died27 May 1996(1996-05-27) (aged 55)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
EducationPrinceton University (A.B.)
Oxford University
MIT (PhD, 1966)
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic philosophy
ThesisThe Hierarchy of Constructible Sets of Integers (1966)
Doctoral advisorHilary Putnam
Main interests
Philosophy of mathematics, mathematical logic
Notable ideas
Hume's principle
Nonfirstorderizability
The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever
Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox philosopher with unknown parameter "influences"
Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox philosopher with unknown parameter "influenced"

George Stephen Boolos (/ˈbls/;[1] 4 September 1940 – 27 May 1996) was an American philosopher and a mathematical logician who taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2]

  1. ^ "Can you solve the three gods riddle? – Alex Gendler"
  2. ^ Van Gelder, Lawrence (30 May 1996). "George Boolos, 55, Philosopher". NY Times.

and 20 Related for: George Boolos information

Request time (Page generated in 0.8001 seconds.)

George Boolos

Last Update:

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"...

Word Count : 2154

The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever

Last Update:

American philosopher and logician George Boolos and published in The Harvard Review of Philosophy in 1996. Boolos' article includes multiple ways of...

Word Count : 3272

Empty set

Last Update:

cannot conjure such an entity into existence by mere stipulation." George Boolos argued that much of what has been heretofore obtained by set theory...

Word Count : 2181

Bachelor of Philosophy

Last Update:

Notable graduates of the BPhil include: Cora Diamond, Daniel Dennett, George Boolos, Galen Strawson, G. A. Cohen, J. J. C. Smart, Patricia Churchland, Peter...

Word Count : 1392

Boulos

Last Update:

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...

Word Count : 253

Provability logic

Last Update:

then, until his death in 1996, the prime inspirer of the field was George Boolos. Significant contributions to the field have been made by Sergei N....

Word Count : 361

Knights and Knaves

Last Update:

non-subjunctive, non-contrary-to-fact question that can be asked. Ulam's game George Boolos, John P. Burgess, Richard C. Jeffrey, Logic, logic, and logic (Harvard...

Word Count : 1295

Liar paradox

Last Update:

working on the proof of the incompleteness theorem) and by Alfred Tarski. George Boolos has since sketched an alternative proof of the first incompleteness...

Word Count : 4399

Diagonal lemma

Last Update:

Collected Works, Vol. 1, Oxford University Press, 1986, p. 363, fn 23. George Boolos and Richard Jeffrey, 1989. Computability and Logic, 3rd ed. Cambridge...

Word Count : 1424

Register machine

Last Update:

compared—the Turing machine (still in Boolos' original 4-tuple form) and recursion the other two. George Boolos, John P. Burgess (1970) Cook (1970) Donald...

Word Count : 5191

Axiom of regularity

Last Update:

spelled out in [Zermelo 1930], and again in a well-known article of George Boolos [Boolos 1971]." Dana Scott (1974) went further and claimed that: The truth...

Word Count : 2937

Nonfirstorderizability

Last Update:

the nuances of meaning in natural language. The term was coined by George Boolos in his paper "To Be is to Be a Value of a Variable (or to Be Some Values...

Word Count : 993

Switch statement

Last Update:

North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam NL, ISBN 0-7204-2103-9 George Boolos, John Burgess, and Richard Jeffrey, 2002, Computability and Logic: Fourth...

Word Count : 2728

Deaths in May 1996

Last Update:

politician. Mike Sharperson, 34, American baseball player, accident. George Boolos, 55, American philosopher and mathematical logician, pancreas cancer...

Word Count : 3551

Philosophy of logic

Last Update:

Charles Sanders Peirce David Lewis Donald Davidson Georg Hegel George Boole George Boolos Gordon Clark Gottfried Leibniz Gottlob Frege Hilary Putnam Immanuel...

Word Count : 11673

List of Princeton University people

Last Update:

University. Retrieved 15 Oct 2011. Van Gelder, Lawrence (30 May 1996). "George Boolos, 55, philosopher". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 Oct 2011. "Faculty...

Word Count : 11571

List of set theory topics

Last Update:

Ackermann James Earl Baumgartner Eyo Malachy Paul Bernays Andreas Blass George Boolos Bourbaki Georg Cantor Paul Cohen Richard Dedekind Paul Finsler Matthew...

Word Count : 448

Outline of algebraic structures

Last Update:

Saunders MacLane, 1999 (1967). Algebra, 2nd ed. New York: Chelsea. George Boolos and Richard Jeffrey, 1980. Computability and Logic, 2nd ed. Cambridge...

Word Count : 2214

Algorithm characterizations

Last Update:

the Computer, Harcourt, Inc., San Diego, ISBN 0-15-601391-6 (pbk.) George Boolos, John P. Burgess, Richard Jeffrey (2002), Computability and Logic: Fourth...

Word Count : 8851

Begriffsschrift

Last Update:

Wissenschaften, physikalisch-mathematische Klasse, 1930, pp. 42–65. George Boolos, 1985. "Reading the Begriffsschrift", Mind 94: 331–344. Ivor Grattan-Guinness...

Word Count : 1375

PDF Search Engine © AllGlobal.net