Philosopher

George Boolos

Overview

George Stephen Boolos (; September 4, 1940 – May 27, 1996) was an American philosopher and a mathematical logician who taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed George Boolos

• Roger Penrose
• Crispin Wright
• Gottlob Frege
• Hilary Putnam
• John P. Burgess

Ideas George Boolos discusses

• First-order logic
• Georg Cantor
• Sidney Hook
• Paul Benacerraf
• Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory
• Kurt Gödel
• Proof theory
• Mathematics
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Mathematical logic
• Doctor of Philosophy
• Ontology
• Richard Dedekind
• Princeton University
• Peano axioms
• Jews
• Set theory
• Crispin Wright
• Michael Dummett
• University of Oxford
• Modal logic
• Second-order logic
• Löwenheim–Skolem theorem
• Solomon Feferman

Place in the tradition

Part of First-order logic.

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