Max Cresswell

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Max John Cresswell (born November 19, 1939 in Wellington ) is a New Zealand philosopher and logician who specializes in the philosophy of logic, modal logic and formal semantics . Besides Cresswell also to ancient philosophy to logic of the 19th century and John Locke published Preeminent became the textbook Introduction to modal logic ( An Introduction to Modal Logic , London, Methuen, 1968, dt. 1978), which he shared with his former teacher and colleague George Edward Hughes . The Introduction was one of the first modern textbooks in this field and has contributed significantly to its academic dissemination. Since then, it has only been replaced as a standard work by its successor, A New Introduction to Modal Logic (also with GE Hughes London, Routledge, 1996). Until his retirement in 2001, Cresswell was a professor at Victoria University of Wellington for many years , interrupted by numerous visiting professorships abroad. He is a member of the Center for Logic, Language and Computation at Victoria.

academic career

After an MA at the University of New Zealand in 1961, he did a doctorate on the basis of a Commonwealth Scholarship at the University of Manchester , where he became a student of Arthur Norman Prior . He graduated with a PhD in 1964. After returning to New Zealand, Creswell became a lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington, in 1967 senior lecturer, 1972 reader, and finally professor after obtaining the LitD in 1972. Numerous visiting professorships and research stays abroad on the basis of scholarships followed. In 2001 Creswell retired, but subsequently held another professorship at the University of Auckland (2004–2008) and since 2009 again at Victoria.

Publications

Monographs and edited volumes

  • GE Hughes, An Introduction to Modal Logic , London, Methuen, 1968, dt .: Introduction to modal logic . Berlin, New York: de Gruyter, 1978
  • Logics and Languages, London, Methuen, 1973, German: The languages ​​of logic and the logic of language , Berlin, New York: de Gruyter, 1979
  • With GE Hughes, A Companion to Modal Logic , London, Methuen, 1984
  • Structured Meanings: The Semantics of Propositional Attitudes , Bradford Books / MIT Press, 1985
  • Adverbial Modification, Dordrecht , Reidel, 1985
  • Semantical Essays: Possible Worlds and Their Rivals , Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988
  • Entities and Indices , Dordrecht, Kluwer, 1990
  • Language in the World , Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1994
  • Semantic Indexicality , Dordrecht, Kluwer, 1996
  • With GE Hughes, A New Introduction to Modal Logic , London, Routledge, 1996

Articles (selection)

logic

  • The interpretation of some Lewis systems of modal logic. Australasian Journal of Philosophy
  • Vol 45, 1967, pp. 198-206.
  • With GE Hughes, Omnitemporal logic and converging time. Theoria Vol 61, 1975, pp. 11-34.
  • Necessity and contingency. Studia Logica Vol 47, 1988, pp 145-149.
  • Incompleteness and the Barcan Formula. Journal of Philosophical Logic Vol 24, 1995, pp 379-403.
  • Some incompletable modal predicate logics. Logique et Analyze No 160, 1997, pp. 321-334.
  • How to complete some modal predicate logics. Advances in Modal Logic , Vol 2, (ed M. Zakharyaschev, K. Segerberg, M. de Rijke and H. Wansing.), CSLI Publications, 2001, pp. 155-178.
  • Possibility semantics for intuitionist logic. Australasian Journal of Logic. Vol 2, 2004, pp. 11-29.
  • Temporal reference in linear tense logic. Journal of Philosophical Logic . 2010, doi: 10.1007 / s10992-009-9122-x

Metaphysics & Philosophy of Logic

  • The semantics of degree. Montague Grammar (BH Partee ed.), Academic Press, New York, 1976, pp. 261-292.
  • Categorial languages. Studia Logica Vol 36, 1977, pp 257-269.
  • Semantic competence. Meaning and Translation (F. Guenthner and M. Guenthner-Reutter, eds), Duckworth, 1978, pp. 9-27.
  • Prepositions and points of view. Linguistics and Philosophy. Vol 2, 1978, pp. 1-41.
  • Modality and Mellor's McTaggart. Studia Logica. Vol 49, 1990, pp. 163-170.
  • In defense of the Barcan Formula, Logique et Analyze. no 135-136, 1991, pp. 271-282.
  • Why propositions have no structure. Nous. Vol 36, 2002, pp. 643-662.
  • Static semantics for dynamic discourse. Linguistics and Philosophy. Vol 25, 2002, pp. 545-571.
  • Adequacy conditions for counterpart theory. Australasian Journal of Philosophy. Vol 82, 2004, pp. 28-41.
  • Formal semantics. The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language , ed. M. Devitt and R. Hanley. Oxford, Blackwell Publishing, 2006, pp. 131-146.
  • The Prior future, Logique et Analyze , No 199, 2007, (ed. MJ Cresswell with A.A. Rini) Time and Modality: 50 Years on, pp. 289-302.
  • Does every proposition have a unique contradictory? Analysis, Vol 68, 2008, pp 112-114.

History of philosophy

  • Is there one or are there many one and many problems in Plato? The Philosophical Quarterly Vol 22, 1972, pp 149-154
  • What is Aristotle's theory of universals? Australasian Journal of Philosophy Vol 53, 1975, pp 238-247
  • Reality as experience in FH Bradley. Australasian Journal of Philosophy Vol 55, 1977, pp 169-188
  • Aristotle's Phaedo . Australasian Journal of Philosophy Vol 65, 1987, pp 131-155
  • All things being particulars. Locke Studies Vol 2, 2002, pp. 19-51
  • Non-contradiction and substantial predication. Theoria , 69: 166-183 (2004).
  • Legitimizing force: A Lockean account. Armed Forces and Society , 30: 629-648 (2004).

literature

  • Festschrift for Max Cresswell on the occasion of his 65th birthday. In: Logique et Analysis. Number 181, March 2003 (published November 2004). See especially the introduction by Thomas Forster

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Official curriculum vitae on the website of the Center for Logic, Language and Computation at Victoria University of Wellington, NZ (accessed in September 2011; PDF; 104 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Cresswell, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cresswell, Max John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand philosopher and logician
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Wellington , New Zealand