Richard Cartwright (philosopher)
American philosopher of language / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Richard Lee Cartwright (1925–2010) was an American philosopher of language and emeritus professor of philosophy at MIT.
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Born | Richard Lee Cartwright 1925 |
Died | 2010 |
Education | Oberlin College (B.A., 1945) Brown University (Ph.D., 1954) |
Spouse | Helen Morris[1] |
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Analytic |
Institutions | University of Michigan Wayne State University MIT |
Thesis | Logical Constructions (1954) |
Doctoral advisor | Curt John Ducasse[2] Roderick Chisholm[2] |
Doctoral students | Richard Boyd[3] |
Main interests | Philosophy of language |
Notable ideas | All-in-one principle (the objects in any domain of discourse form a set)[4] |
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