Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh | |
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Born | |
Died | 6 March 2023 | (aged 80)
Nationality | German |
Alma mater | |
Era | Philosophy of medicine |
Region | Western science and philosophy |
School | Analytic philosophy of medicine |
Main interests | Logic, methodology, and philosophy of medicine; epistemology, applied fuzzy logic |
Notable ideas | Computability of clinical decision-making, fuzzification of set-theoretical predicates, biopolymers represented as fuzzy sequences of numbers, medicine as a deontic field, scientific knowledge as industrial product |
Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh (/ˈzɑːdeɪ/; Persian: کاظم صادقزاده; 23 April 1942 – 6 March 2023)[1][2] was a German analytic philosopher of medicine of Iranian descent. He was the first ever professor of philosophy of medicine at a German university and has made significant contributions to the philosophy, methodology, and logic of medicine since 1970.[3][4]