Casimir Lewy

Casimir Lewy
1938 pastel drawing by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
Born
Kazimierz Lewy

26 February 1919
Died8 February 1991
EducationFitzwilliam College, Cambridge (PhD, 1943)
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic
InstitutionsTrinity College, Cambridge
ThesisSome philosophical considerations about the survival of death (1943)
Doctoral advisorG. E. Moore[1]
Other academic advisorsLudwig Wittgenstein
Doctoral studentsSimon Blackburn
Other notable studentsEdward Craig, Ian Hacking, Crispin Wright
Main interests
Philosophical logic (modal logic)
Notable ideas
The notion of truth as a property of propositions is prior to the notion of truth as a property of sentences[2]
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Casimir Lewy (Polish: Kazimierz Lewy; 26 February 1919 – 8 February 1991) was a Polish philosopher of Jewish descent.

He worked in philosophical logic but published scantly. He was an influential teacher; several of his students went on to be prominent philosophers, including Simon Blackburn,[3] Edward Craig, Ian Hacking,[3] and Crispin Wright.

  1. ^ "Casimir Lewy"
  2. ^ P. F. Strawson, "Meaning and Modality by Casimir Lewy [Review]", Analytical Philosophy 4(3) (October 1963): 4–6.
  3. ^ a b "Tree – David Chalmers". Retrieved 22 July 2020.