Burton Dreben
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Burton Spencer Dreben (September 27, 1927 ā July 11, 1999) was an American philosopher specializing in mathematical logic.[1] A Harvard graduate who taught at his alma mater for most of his career (where he retired as Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy Emeritus), he published little but was a teacher and a critic of the work of his colleagues (Floyd & Shieh 2001).
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Born | Burton Spencer Dreben (1927-09-27)September 27, 1927 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Died | July 11, 1999(1999-07-11) (aged 71) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Era | 20th-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Analytic philosophy |
Doctoral advisor | Willard Van Orman Quine |
Doctoral students | Charles Parsons, T. M. Scanlon |
Main interests | Mathematical logic History of analytic philosophy |
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