Casimir Lewy
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Casimir Lewy (Polish: Kazimierz Lewy; 26 February 1919 – 8 February 1991) was a Polish philosopher of Jewish descent.
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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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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.