George Boolos
George Boolos | |
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| Born | George Stephen Boolos September 4, 1940 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | May 27, 1996 (aged 55) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Education | |
| Education | Princeton University (AB) Oxford University Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
| Thesis | The Hierarchy of Constructible Sets of Integers (1966) |
| Hilary Putnam | |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Analytic philosophy | |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Doctoral students | Delia Graff Fara |
Main interests | Philosophy of mathematics, mathematical logic |
Notable ideas | Hume's principle Nonfirstorderizability The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever |
George Stephen Boolos (/ˈbuːloʊs/; September 4, 1940 – May 27, 1996) was an American philosopher and a mathematical logician who taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.