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During World War II Raymond Ruyer was a prisoner of war in Germany from 1940 to 1944. Upon his return he was appointed professor of philosophy at the Université de Nancy, where he developed his theories of the philosophical implications of various branches of science, mainly embryology, biology and informatics. At the same time he continued ...
John Madison Cooper (November 29, 1939 – August 8, 2022) [1] was an American philosopher who was the Emeritus Henry Putnam University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University and an expert on ancient philosophy.
Saul Aaron Kripke (/ ˈ k r ɪ p k i /; November 13, 1940 – September 15, 2022) was an American analytic philosopher and logician.He was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and emeritus professor at Princeton University.
Bastiaan Cornelis van Fraassen (/ v æ n ˈ f r ɑː s ən /; born 5 April 1941) is a Dutch-American philosopher noted for his contributions to philosophy of science, epistemology and formal logic. He is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University and the McCosh Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Princeton University.
His interests include logic, philosophy of mathematics and selected topics in metaethics and philosophy of mind. He is the author of numerous articles on logic, philosophy of mathematics, and the history of analytic philosophy. In 2012, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [1] He is the brother of Barbara Burgess.
Wood received his doctorate from Cornell University in 1926 and was appointed assistant professor of philosophy at Princeton University in 1927. He remained a member of the Princeton Philosophy Department for 43 years, serving as departmental chair from 1952 to 1960.
21st-century philosophy: Region: Western philosophy: Institutions: Princeton University: Thesis: Causation in Metaphysics and Moral Theory (2002) Doctoral advisor: Ned Hall: Other academic advisors: Elizabeth Harman, Carolina Sartorio, Robert Stalnaker, Judith Thomson
Frankfurt was professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University. [2] He previously taught at Ohio State University (1956–1962), SUNY Binghamton (1962–1963), [3] Rockefeller University (from 1963 until the philosophy department was closed in 1976), [4] Yale University (from 1976, where he served as chair of the philosophy department 1978–1987), [5] and then Princeton University ...