New York University (B.A. 1941) Yale University (M.A. 1942) Yale University (Ph.D. 1946)
Era
Contemporary philosophy
Region
Western philosophy
School
Analytic
Institutions
Northwestern University Yale University
Thesis
Strict Functional Calculus (1946)
Doctoral advisor
Frederic Fitch
Main interests
Formal logic
Notable ideas
Quantified modal logic,[1] Barcan formula, necessity of identity, tag theory of names
Ruth Barcan Marcus (/ˈbɑːrkənˈmɑːrkəs/; born Ruth Charlotte Barcan; 2 August 1921[2][3] – 19 February 2012[3]) was an American academic philosopher and logician best known for her work in modal and philosophical logic.[4] She developed the first formal systems of quantified modal logic[5] and in so doing introduced the schema or principle known as the Barcan formula.[2][3][5] (She would also introduce the now standard "box" operator for necessity in the process.)[4] Marcus, who originally published as Ruth C. Barcan,[5] was, as Don Garrett notes[2] "one of the twentieth century's most important and influential philosopher-logicians". Timothy Williamson, in a 2008 celebration of Marcus' long career, states that many of her "main ideas are not just original, and clever, and beautiful, and fascinating, and influential, and way ahead of their time, but actually – I believe – true".[6]
^Dagfinn Føllesdal, Referential Opacity and Modal Logic, Routledge, 2014, p. 19.
^ abcThe Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers. Thoemmes. 2005. doi:10.5040/9781350052444-0636. ISBN 9781350052444.
^ abcFox, Margalit (2012-03-13). "Ruth Barcan Marcus, Philosopher and Logician, Dies at 90". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
^ abcWilliamson, Timothy (2013). "In Memoriam: Ruth Barcan Marcus 1921–2012" (PDF). Bulletin of Symbolic Logic. 19 (1): 123–126. doi:10.2178/bsl.1901070. ISSN 1079-8986. S2CID 124592216.
^"Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog: Timothy Williamson's Tribute to Ruth Barcan Marcus on the Occasion of Her Receipt of the Lauener Prize". leiterreports.typepad.com. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
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