George Boolos | |
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Born | George Stephen Boolos September 4, 1940 New York City, U.S. |
Died | May 27, 1996 Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. | (aged 55)
Education | Princeton University (AB) Oxford University Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
Era | 20th-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Analytic philosophy |
Thesis | The Hierarchy of Constructible Sets of Integers (1966) |
Doctoral advisor | Hilary Putnam |
Main interests | Philosophy of mathematics, mathematical logic |
Notable ideas | Hume's principle Nonfirstorderizability The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever |
George Stephen Boolos (/ˈbuːloʊs/;[1] September 4, 1940 – May 27, 1996) was an American philosopher and a mathematical logician who taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2]