Clarence Irving Lewis
Clarence Irving Lewis (born April 12, 1883 in Stoneham , Massachusetts , † February 3, 1964 in Cambridge , Massachusetts) was an American logician and philosopher who studied philosophy at Harvard University , a. a. at Josiah Royce .
He taught from 1911 to 1919 at the University of California, Berkeley and from 1920 to 1953 at Harvard University . In 1929 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
In 1929 he used the term qualia for the first time in his book Mind and the World Order and thus introduced it as a philosophical technical term.
Lewis founded the axiomatic modal logic . His systems S4 and S5 from 1932 became canonical axiom systems of modern modal logic.
Robert Paul Wolff was one of his students.
His son Andy Lewis (1925-2018) worked as a screenwriter .
Works
- CI Lewis: A Survey of Symbolic Logic . Berkeley 1918, reprint, New York 1960.
- CI Lewis: Mind and the World Order: Outline of a Theory of Knowledge . 1929, reprint, Dover 1956.
- CI Lewis, CH Langford: Symbolic Logic . New York 1959, corrected reprint of the 1932 edition.
Web links
- CI Lewis: A Pragmatic Conception of the "Priori" on Information Philosopher
- Bruce Hunter: Entry in Edward N. Zalta (Ed.): Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy .
- Eric Dayton: Entry in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy .
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| SURNAME | Lewis, Clarence Irving |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American logician and philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stoneham , Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd February 1964 |
| Place of death | Cambridge , Massachusetts |