Donald Kalish

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Donald Kalish (born December 4, 1919 in Chicago , † June 8, 2000 in Los Angeles ) was an American logician and antiwar activist.

Life

Kalish earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley and later taught at Swarthmore College and from 1949 at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He was a philosophy professor there and was from 1964 to 1970 the faculty of philosophy at UCLA. In 1997 he retired.

Kalish was an opponent of the Vietnam War and US interventions in Nicaragua and Grenada . In his role as chairman of the philosophy faculty at UCLA, he hired Marxist activist Angela Davis , got involved in various university and California anti-war organizations, and organized protests. For example, he co-organized the protest event with more than 10,000 participants in front of the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles on June 23, 1967 in the presence of President Lyndon B. Johnson . He was then Vice President of the Peace Action Council in Los Angeles. These activities were later processed literarily by Norman Mailer in The Armies of the Night (1968). Since 2001, the UCLA Philosophy Faculty has awarded the Donald Kalish Prize for intellectual excellence to BA students annually .

plant

Kalish was primarily concerned with logic , set theory, and the history of both areas. Together with Richard Montague he developed an influential new method of natural reasoning in the field of formal-logical proofs.

Works

  • with Richard Montague : Logic: Techniques of Formal Reasoning , Harcourt, Brace, and Jovanovich 1964.
  • with Richard Montague and Gary Mar: Logic: Techniques of Formal Reasoning , 1980.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography at the University of Virginia
  2. ↑ Kalish Prize, with photo ( Memento of the original dated November 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.philosophy.ucla.edu
personal data
SURNAME Kalish, Donald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 2000
Place of death los Angeles