Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein

male, deceased (1951)
philosophy, Philosopher of language, Logician, philosophy of language, From Vienna, Wittgensteinian philosopher…philosopher of mind, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge, Philosophyofmathematics, Philosophy of mind
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (April 26, 1889 in Vienna, Austria - April 29, 1951 in Cambridge, England) was an Austrian philosopher who...
Hilary Putnam

Hilary Putnam

male, 83 years old
type-identity, metaphysicians, type physicalism, Philosopher of science, quasi-empiricism in mathematics, thought experiment…Causal theory of reference, philosophy of language, University of California, Los Angeles alumni, Philosophyofmathematics, Philosopher of language
Hilary Whitehall Putnam (born July 31 1926) is an American philosopher who has been a central figure in Western philosophy since the 1960s,...
Kurt Gödel

Kurt Gödel

male, deceased (1978)
Logician, incompleteness theorems, mathematician, mathematics, philosopher, Gödel numbering…Philosophyofmathematics, axioms of set theory, National Medal of Science recipient, University of Vienna, philosopher of mathematics
Kurt Gödel (April 28, 1906 Brünn, Austria-Hungary (now Brno, Czech Republic) - January 14, 1978 Princeton, New Jersey) was an Austrian American ma...
Stewart Shapiro

Stewart Shapiro

male, 58 years old
Ohio State University, Master of Arts, Ph.D., Philosophyofmathematics, State University of New York, Ohio State University faculty…philosophy, mathematics, University of St Andrews, O'Donnell Professor of Philosophy
Stewart Shapiro (born 15 June 1951) is Professor of Philosophy at the Ohio State University and a regular visiting professor at the University of...
Michael Dummett

Michael Dummett

male, 84 years old
Rolf Schock Prize laureate, roman catholic church, Immigration Law, Winchester College, Borda count, New College, Oxford…Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford, Fellow of New College, Oxford, philosophy of logic, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, Philosophyofmathematics
Sir Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett F.B.A., D. Litt, (born 1925) is a leading British philosopher. He has both written on the history of analytic...
Crispin Wright

Crispin Wright

male, 66 years old
Philosophical Realism, proven, Axiom schema of specification, Principle of Unrestricted Comprehension, Frege's Conception of Numbers as Objects, knowledge…University of St. Andrews, Philosophyofmathematics, Philosopher of language, philosophy, Fellow of the British Academy
Crispin Wright (born 1942) is a British philosopher, who has written on neo-Fregean philosophy of mathematics, Wittgenstein's later philosophy, and...
Hartry Field

Hartry Field

male, 63 years old
Harvard University, Philosophyofmathematics, National Labor Relations Board, deflationary theory of truth, Graduate Student Organizing Committee, Journal of Philosophy…University of Southern California, City University of New York
Hartry H. Field (born 1946) is a philosopher working at New York University (NYU). He previously taught at the University of Southern California...

Paul Benacerraf

male (Princeton, New Jersey, United States)
metaphysicians, French, Princeton University, American, sephardic, Philosophyofmathematics…philosopher of mathematics
Paul Benacerraf is an French philosopher of mathematics who has been teaching at Princeton University since he joined the faculty in 1960. He was...
Penelope Maddy

Penelope Maddy

female
Princeton University, Realism in Mathematics, Naturalism in Mathematics, University of California, Irvine, Philosophyofmathematics, quine…mathematics, philosophy of science
Penelope Maddy is Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science and of Mathematics at the University of California, Irvine. She is well-known for...