Carl Gustav Hempel

Carl Gustav Hempel

male, deceased (1997)
German, Deductive-nomological, Oranienburg, German-language philosopher, explanation, Philosopher of science
Carl Gustav Hempel (born January 8 1905 in Oranienburg, Germany died November 9 1997 in Princeton, New Jersey) was a philosopher of science and a...
Ernest Nagel

Ernest Nagel

male, deceased (1985)
Columbia University, mathematical logic, CarlHempel, Morris Cohen, Journal of Philosophy, Gödel's incompleteness theorems
Ernest Nagel (November 16, 1901 - September 22, 1985) was among the most important philosophers of science of his time. Nagel was born in Prague...
Richard Jeffrey

Richard Jeffrey

male, deceased (2002)
Stanford University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, Princeton University, World War II, Probability theorist…CarlHempel
Richard C. Jeffrey was an American philosopher, logician, and probability theorist. He was a native of Boston, Massachusetts. Jeffrey served in the...
Robert Stalnaker

Robert Stalnaker

male
Philosopher of metaphysics, pragmatics, game theory, counterfactual conditional, possible world semantics, Princeton University…CarlHempel
Robert Culp Stalnaker is Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work concerns, among...
Jean Nicod

Jean Nicod

male, deceased (1924)
Logician, axiom, Tuberculosis, French, philosopher, death by tuberculosis…CarlHempel
Jean George Pierre Nicod (c. 1893 - 16 February 1924) was a French philosopher and logician. In his most important work, he used Henry M. Sheffer's...