'The Method of Consequences', presentation offprint, pp. 48 - 56 in The Philosophical Review, Volume LXXII no. 1, January 1963.

SMULLYAN, Arthur Francis

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Offprint, front wrapper with a small mark at the top, inscribed 'With my compliments, Arthur Smullyan'. 'By the method of consequences is meant the procedure of provisionally accepting a hypothesis on the basis of rigorous tests, applied not only to it but also to as many genuine alternatives to it as we are able to formulate' (p. 48). 'Arthur F. Smullyan received his BA from City College of New York in 1937, and then went to graduate school at Harvard University, where he earned his MA in 1940 and his PhD in philosophy in 1941, writing a dissertation on Evidence, Memory, and Induction: An Essay on the Foundations of Synthetic Knowledge. After teaching mathematics at Williams College in Massachusetts from 1943 to 1946, he joined the philosophy faculty at the University of Washington in 1946, where he was promoted to full professor in 1956 and served as department chair from 1956 to 1968. In 1968 he became professor of philosophy and department chair at Rutgers University. He served as chair until 1976, helping to establish the doctoral program, and taught until retiring in 1982. Smullyan died on 23 October 1998 in Tacoma, Washington' (Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, Thoemmes Continuum, 2005).

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• Title: 'The Method of Consequences', presentation offprint, pp. 48 - 56 in The Philosophical Review, Volume LXXII no. 1, January 1963.
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Logic & Mathematics
  • Philosophy