Charles Peirce

Charles Peirce

male, deceased (1914)
purse, Semiotician, Logician, mathematician, pragmatist, Philosopher of language
Charles Sanders Peirce (pronounced "purse"), (September 10, 1839 - April 19, 1914) was an American polymath, physicist, and philosopher, born in...
Rudolf Carnap

Rudolf Carnap

male, deceased (1970)
Logician, metaphysicians, naturalized citizen of the United States, Analytic philosopher, logical positivism, Philosopher of language
Rudolf Carnap (May 18, 1891, Ronsdorf, Germany - September 14, 1970, Santa Monica, California) was an influential philosopher who was active in...
Alonzo Church

Alonzo Church

male, deceased (1995)
post-doctoral fellowship, Ph.D., mathematician, Princeton University alumni, Princeton University faculty, American…Logician
Alonzo Church was an American mathematician and logician who was responsible for some of the foundations of theoretical computer science. Born in...
Willard van Orman Quine

Willard van Orman Quine

male, deceased (2000)
Rolf Schock Prize laureate, American military personnel of World War II, Philosopher of metaphysics, world war ii veteran, Harvard University alumni, Analytic philosopher…Logician
Willard Van Orman Quine (June 25, 1908 - December 25, 2000), usually cited as W.V. Quine or W.V.O. Quine was one of the most influential...
Augustus de Morgan

Augustus de Morgan

male, deceased (1871)
British music theorist, De Morgan's laws, De Morgan crater, mathematical induction, Indian-born, moon…Logician
Augustus de Morgan was an Indian-born British mathematician and logician. He formulated De Morgan's laws and was the first to introduce the term,...
Peter Abelard

Peter Abelard

male, deceased (1142)
buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery, Benedictine, Medieval composer, monk, Philosopher of language, Scholastic philosopher…Logician
Pierre Abélard (in English, Peter Abelard) or Abailard was a French scholastic philosopher, theologian, and logician. The story of his affair with h...
John Venn

John Venn

male, deceased (1923)
Christian, Evangelical, Hull,Yorkshire, Old Cholmeleian, prison reform, abolition of slavery…Logician
John Venn (born Hull,Yorkshire, August 4, 1834 - died Cambridge, April 4, 1923), was a British logician and philosopher, who is famous for...
Saul Kripke

Saul Kripke

male, 69 years old
Rolf Schock Prize laureate, metaphysicians, Jewish, Wittgensteinian philosopher, American, emeritus…Logician
Professor Saul Kripke (Philosophy), who had been a visiting professor at The Graduate Center since Spring 2002, now joins the faculty as a...
Georg Cantor

Georg Cantor

male, deceased (1918)
mathematics, transfinite number, Lutheran, set theory, Finitism, ordinal number…Logician
Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor (March 3, 1845, St. Petersburg, Russia - January 6, 1918, Halle, Germany) was a German mathematician. He is...
Aristotle

Aristotle

male
philosopher, greek, greek philosopher, Classical Greek philosophy, Logician, physics
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on diverse subjects, including physics,...