Avicenna

Avicenna

male, deceased (1037)
physics, mathematics, Classical humanist, Islamic medicine, Soldier, Islamic Science…Logic in Islamic philosophy, logic
Ibn Sina, also known as Avicenna) was a Persian ("Tājīk") Muslim universal genius who made signficant contributions to medicine, astronomy, al...
William Of Ockham

William Of Ockham

male, deceased (1349)
Renaissance Latin author, scholastic, Logician, Philosopher of language, Scholastic philosopher, logic
William of Ockham (also Occam or any of several other spellings,) (c. 1288 - c. 1348) was an English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher,...
Frank Pfenning

Frank Pfenning

male
logical frameworks, Twelf, Proof Transformations in Higher-Order Logic, programming language theory, automated deduction, Type theory…logic
Frank Pfenning is a professor of computer science, and adjunct professor in the department of philosophy, at Carnegie Mellon University. He...
Aristotle

Aristotle

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

Saul Kripke

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

Charles Peirce

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

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

male, deceased (1716)
Polymath, scientist, Christian in science, God, gottfried wilhelm leibniz, theology…logic
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (also "Leibnitz" or "von Leibniz" (July 1 (June 21 Old Style) 1646 – November 14 1716) was a German polymath who wrote mo...
Johan van Benthem

Johan van Benthem

male, 60 years old
M.H. Löb, Rijswijk, first-order logic, Master of Arts, Modal Logic, CSLI…Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, First Order Logic, update logic, logic, dynamic logic
Johannes Franciscus Abraham Karel (Johan) van Benthem (Rijswijk, June 12, 1949-) is a University Professor ("universiteitshoogleraar") of logic at...

David Bell

male
logic, Academic of the University of Sheffield, solipsism, philosophy of language, Philosophy of mathematics, Continental philosophy
David Bell is currently emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Sheffield, having previously studied in Dublin (Trinity College...

David Kaplan

male, 76 years old
graduate student, proposition, Philosophical logic, philosophy of language, metaphysics, David Benjamin Kaplan…logic
David Benjamin Kaplan (born 1933) is an American philosopher and logician teaching at UCLA. His philosophical work focuses on logic, philosophical...