Casimir Lewy | |
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 1938 pastel drawing by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz | |
| Born | Kazimierz Lewy 26 February 1919 |
| Died | 8 February 1991 |
| Education | Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge (PhD, 1943) |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic |
| Institutions | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Thesis | Some philosophical considerations about the survival of death (1943) |
| Doctoral advisor | G. E. Moore[1] |
| Other academic advisors | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| Doctoral students | Simon Blackburn |
| Other notable students | Edward 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.
- ^ "Casimir Lewy"
- ^ P. F. Strawson, "Meaning and Modality by Casimir Lewy [Review]", Analytical Philosophy 4(3) (October 1963): 4–6.
- ^ a b "Tree – David Chalmers". Retrieved 22 July 2020.