Ruth Barcan Marcus
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Gender | Female |
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Death | 12 years ago |
Date of birth | August 2,1921 |
Zodiac sign | Leo |
Born | New York City |
New York | |
United States | |
Date of died | February 19,2012 |
Died | New Haven |
Connecticut | |
United States | |
Books | Modalities |
Influenced by | Willard Van Orman Quine |
Arthur Prior | |
Job | Philosopher |
Education | Yale University |
New York University | |
Awards | Wilbur Cross Medal |
Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada | |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 554184 |
Ruth Barcan Marcus Life story
Ruth Barcan Marcus was an American academic philosopher and logician best known for her work in modal and philosophical logic. She developed the first formal systems of quantified modal logic and in so doing introduced the schema or principle known as the Barcan formula.