- Louis Logic
Louis Logic is a New York City based underground hip-hop MC. He is a former member of the Demigodz, appearing on a number of tracks on their first album. He has also released albums as a solo artist, and as The Odd Couple with Jay Love. He has recently made his arrangement with longtime producer J.J. Brown official; his most recent album was released under the artist name "Louis Logic & J.J. Brown." - Loose Logic
Loose Logic (born Ian Westbrook on June 2, 1983) is an american hip-hop emcee from California. An up and coming artist originally from Dana Pointe is making his mark by opening for artists such as KRS-1, Evidence, and DJ Quik. He has recently received the award of Best Urban Artist at the OC Music Awards. - Dj Logic
DJ Logic (born Jason Kibler) is a turntablist active primarily in jazz and with jam bands. Kibler was raised in The Bronx. An early interest in hip hop led to his using the turntables, practicing often. Kibler was also interested in funk and jazz music, and began collaborating with various musicians. His own recordings are perhaps best described as contemporary soul jazz with a strong hip hop feel. Kibler tours often with his own group, Project Logic, … - Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (January 27 1832 - January 14 1898), better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer. His most famous writings are "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and its sequel "Through the Looking-Glass" as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (April 26, 1889 in Vienna, Austria - April 29, 1951 in Cambridge, England) was an Austrian philosopher who contributed several ground-breaking ideas to philosophy, primarily in the foundations of logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of mind. His influence has been wide-ranging, placing him among the most significant philosophers of the 20th century. - Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead, OM (February 15 1861, Ramsgate, Kent, England - December 30 1947, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) was an English-born mathematician who became a philosopher. He wrote on algebra, logic, foundations of mathematics, philosophy of science, physics, metaphysics, and education. With Bertrand Russell, he coauthored the epochal "Principia Mathematica". - Kurt Gödel
Kurt Gödel (April 28, 1906 Brünn, Austria-Hungary (now Brno, Czech Republic) - January 14, 1978 Princeton, New Jersey) was an Austrian American mathematician and philosopher. One of the most significant logicians of all time, Gödel's work has had immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century, a time when many, such as Bertrand Russell, A. N. Whitehead and David Hilbert, … - Gottlob Frege
Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege was a German mathematician who became a logician and philosopher. He helped found both modern mathematical logic and analytic philosophy. His work has exerted a fundamental and far-reaching influence on 20th-century philosophy, especially in English-speaking countries. - John Perry
John R. Perry (b. 1943) is Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University. He has made significant contributions to areas of philosophy, including logic, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind. He is known primarily for his work on situation semantics (together with Jon Barwise), reflexivity, indexicality, and self-knowledge. - Alfred Tarski
Alfred Tarski (January 14, 1902, Warsaw, Russian-ruled Poland – October 26, 1983, Berkeley, California) was a logician and mathematician who spent four decades as a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. A member of the interwar Warsaw School of Mathematics, and active in the USA after 1939, he wrote on topology, geometry, measure theory, mathematical logic, set theory, metamathematics, and above all, model theory, abstract algebra, … - Avicenna
Ibn Sina, also known as Avicenna) was a Persian ("Tājīk") Muslim universal genius who made signficant contributions to medicine, astronomy, alchemy, chemistry, logic, mathematics, metaphysics, philosophy, physics, poetry, science, and theology, and he was also a statesman and soldier. Avicenna was born around 980 (370 AH) in Afshana near Bukhara in Khorasan (now part of Uzbekistan), and died in 1037 (428 AH) in Hamadan (now in Iran). - William Of Ockham
William of Ockham (also Occam or any of several other spellings,) (c. 1288 - c. 1348) was an English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher, from Ockham, a small village in Surrey, near East Horsley. He is considered, along with Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus, one of the major figures of medieval thought and found himself at the center of the major intellectual and political controversies of the fourteenth century. - Frank Pfenning
Frank Pfenning is a professor of computer science, and adjunct professor in the department of philosophy, at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D. from the Carnegie Mellon University Department of Mathematics in 1987, for his dissertation entitled "Proof Transformations in Higher-Order Logic". He was a student of Peter Andrews. His research includes work in the area of programming languages, logic and type theory, logical frameworks, automated deduction, … - Aristotle
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on diverse subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry (including theater), biology and zoology, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, and ethics. Along with Socrates and Plato, Aristotle was one of the most influential of the ancient Greek philosophers. They transformed Presocratic Greek philosophy into the foundations of Western philosophy as we know it. - Saul Kripke
Professor Saul Kripke (Philosophy), who had been a visiting professor at The Graduate Center since Spring 2002, now joins the faculty as a Professor of Philosophy. He is known as a brilliant logician and one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. While a high school student in Nebraska, he wrote a series of papers that transformed modal logic and remain canonical works in the field. - Charles Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce (pronounced "purse"), (September 10, 1839 - April 19, 1914) was an American polymath, physicist, and philosopher, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Although Peirce was educated as a chemist and was employed as a scientist for 30 years, it is for his contributions to logic, mathematics, philosophy, and the theory of signs, or semiotics, that he is largely appreciated today. - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (also "Leibnitz" or "von Leibniz" (July 1 (June 21 Old Style) 1646 – November 14 1716) was a German polymath who wrote mostly in Latin and French. Educated in law and philosophy, and serving as factotum to two major German noble houses (one becoming the British royal family while he served it), Leibniz played a major role in the European politics and diplomacy of his day. - Johan van Benthem
Johannes Franciscus Abraham Karel (Johan) van Benthem (Rijswijk, June 12, 1949-) is a University Professor ("universiteitshoogleraar") of logic at the Universiteit van Amsterdam at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation and professor of philosophy at Stanford University (at CSLI). He studied physics (B.Sc. 1969), philosophy (M.A. 1972) and mathematics (M.Sc. - David Bell
David Bell is currently emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Sheffield, having previously studied in Dublin (Trinity College Dublin), Göttingen and Canada (McMaster University). He is well known for his work in continental philosophy from an analytic point of view (especially his work on Edmund Husserl), as well as being interested in solipsism, and other areas of philosophies of mind, language, logic and mathematics. - David Kaplan
David Benjamin Kaplan (born 1933) is an American philosopher and logician teaching at UCLA. His philosophical work focuses on logic, philosophical logic, modality, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and epistemology. He is best known for his work on demonstratives, on propositions, and on reference in intensional contexts. Kaplan received his Ph.D. in philosophy from UCLA in 1964, where he was the last graduate student mentored by Rudolf Carnap. - Jon Barwise
Kenneth Jon Barwise (June 29, 1942 - March 5, 2000) was a U.S. mathematician, philosopher and logician who proposed some fundamental revisions to the way that logic is understood and used. Born in Independence, Missouri to Kenneth T. and Evelyn, he was a precocious child. A pupil of Solomon Feferman at Stanford University, Barwise started his research in infinitary logic. After positions as assistant professor at the Universities of Yale and Wisconsin, … - Dov Gabbay
Dov M. Gabbay is Augustus De Morgan Professor of Logic at the Group of Logic, Language and Computation, Department of Computer Science, King's College London. He is the editor or co-editor of the "Handbook of Philosophical Logic", the "Handbook of Logic in Computer Science", and the "Handbook of Artificial Intelligence and Logic Programming". - Euclid
Euclid (Greek: "'), also known as Euclid of Alexandria"', was a Greek mathematician of the Hellenistic period who flourished in Alexandria, Egypt, almost certainly during the reign of Ptolemy I (323 BC-283 BC). His "Elements" is the most successful textbook in the history of mathematics. In it, the principles of geometry are deduced from a small set of axioms. - Moritz Schlick
Moritz Schlick was a German philosopher and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle. Schlick was born in Berlin to a wealthy family. He studied physics at Heidelberg, Lausanne, and, ultimately, the University of Berlin under Max Planck. In 1904, he completed his dissertation essay, "Über die Reflexion des Lichts in einer inhomogenen Schicht" ("On the Reflection of Light in a Non-Homogeneous Medium"). - Hermann Weyl
Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl was a German mathematician. Although much of his working life was spent in Zürich and then Princeton, he is closely identified with the University of Göttingen tradition of mathematics, represented by David Hilbert and Hermann Minkowski. His research has had major significance for theoretical physics as well as pure disciplines including number theory. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century, … - Andy Clark
Andy Clark is a Professor of Philosophy and chair in Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Before this he was director of the Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University in Bloomington. Previously, he taught at Washington University at St. Louis and the University of Sussex in England. Professor Clark’s papers and books deal with the philosophy of mind and he is considered a leading scientist in mind extension. - Wilfrid Hodges
Wilfrid Hodges (born 1941) is a British mathematician, known for his work in model theory. He is Professor of Mathematics at Queen Mary, University of London and author of numerous books on logic. He attended New College, Oxford (1959-65), where he received degrees in both "Literae Humaniores" and Theology. In 1970 he was awarded a doctorate for a thesis in Logic. He lectured in both Philosophy and Mathematics at Bedford College, University of London. - John Venn
John Venn (born Hull,Yorkshire, August 4, 1834 - died Cambridge, April 4, 1923), was a British logician and philosopher, who is famous for conceiving the Venn diagrams, which are used in many fields, including set theory, probability, logic, statistics, and computer science. John Venn's mother, Martha Sykes, came from Swanland near Hull, Yorkshire and died while John was still quite young. His father was the Rev Henry Venn who, … - Richard Jeffrey
Richard C. Jeffrey was an American philosopher, logician, and probability theorist. He was a native of Boston, Massachusetts. Jeffrey served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. As a graduate student he studied under Rudolf Carnap, Kurt Gödel, and Carl Hempel. He received his M.A. from the University of Chicago in 1952 and his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1957. After holding academic positions at City College of New York, Stanford University, … - Marva Collins
Marva Collins uses the Socratic method, modified for use in primary school. The first step is to select material with abstract content to challenge students' logic, and that will therefore have different meaning to different students, in order to aid discussion. This is done specifically to teach children to reason. Next, the teacher should read the material, because unknown material cannot be taught. New words, the "words to watch", should be listed, and taught, for pronunciation, … - Dharmakirti
Dharmakirti (circa 7th century), was an Indian scholar and one of the Buddhist founders of Indian philosophical logic. He was one of the primary theorists of Buddhist atomism, according to which, the only items considered to exist are momentary Buddhist atoms, and states of consciousness. - John Etchemendy
John W. Etchemendy is Stanford University's twelfth and current Provost. He succeeded John L. Hennessy to the post on September 1, 2000. John Etchemendy was born in Reno, Nevada and received his bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Nevada, Reno before earning his PhD in philosophy at Stanford in 1982. He has been a faculty member in Stanford's Department of Philosophy since 1983, … - Thomas Wilson
Thomas Wilson (1524-1581) was an English diplomat and judge, a courtier at the court of Elizabeth I. He is now remembered for his "Logique" (1551) and "The Arte of Rhetorique" (1553), an influential text. James Franklin calls these "the first complete works on logic and rhetoric in English. He also wrote "A Discourse upon Usury by way of Dialogue and Orations (1572), and translated Demosthenes. - Bernard Bolzano
Bernard Placidus Johann Nepomuk Bolzano (October 5, 1781 - December 18, 1848) was a Bohemian mathematician, theologian, philosopher and logician of German mother tongue. He was born in Prague. - Brian Skyrms
Brian Skyrms is a Distinguished Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science and Economics at the University of California, Irvine and a regular visiting member of the philosophy department at Stanford University. He has worked on problems in the philosophy of science, causation, decision theory, game theory, and the foundations of probability. Most recently, his work has focused on the evolution of social norms using evolutionary game theory. - Bernard Bosanquet
Bernard Bosanquet (July 14, 1848, Alnwick, Northumberland, England - February 8, 1923, London) was an English philosopher and political theorist, and an influential figure on matters of political and social policy in late 19th and early 20th century Britain. His work influenced - but was later subject to criticism by - many thinkers, notably Bertrand Russell, John Dewey, and William James. Bernard was the husband of Charity Organisation Society leader Helen Bosanquet. - Charles Parsons
Charles Parsons is a distinguished figure in the philosophy of mathematics and son of social scientist Talcott Parsons. A specialist in the philosophy of mathematics and logic, Parsons earned his Ph.D. at Harvard University under the direction of Burton Dreben. He taught for many years at Columbia University before moving to Harvard University. He retired in 2005 as the Edgar Pierce professor of philosophy, a position formerly held by Quine. - William Stanley Jevons
William Stanley Jevons, English economist and logician, was born in Liverpool. He expounded in his book "The Theory of Political Economy" (1871) the "final" (marginal) utility theory of value. Jevons' work, along with similar discoveries made by Carl Menger in Vienna (1871) and by Léon Walras in Switzerland (1874), marked the opening of a new period in the history of economic thought. - Norman Kemp Smith
Norman Kemp Smith was a philosopher who lectured at Princeton University and was Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh. He is best-known for his influential English translation of Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason", which is often used as the standard English version of the text, and is considered by many to be the most readable rendering of the work. His commentaries on the "Critique" are also well regarded, … - Benjamin Peirce
Benjamin Peirce, April 4, 1809 – October 6, 1880) was an American mathematician who taught at Harvard University for forty years. He made contributions to celestial mechanics, number theory, algebra, and the philosophy of mathematics. After graduating from Harvard, he became a tutor there (1829), then was appointed professor of mathematics in 1831. He added astronomy to his portfolio in 1842, and remained as Harvard professor until his death.
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