Martha Kneale

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Martha Kneale (née Hurst ; * 1909; † December 2, 2001 ) was a British philosopher and historian of logic. She gained greater fame through the history of formal logic The Development of Logic (1962), which was written together with her husband William Kneale and is still considered the standard work in this field today.

life and work

Martha Hurst Kneale was born Martha Hurst in Skipton, Yorkshire. After her studies 1929-33 at Somerville College had completed, Oxford with a BA, they first went to the US, where they first Graham Kenan - Fellow at the University of North Carolina was (until 1934) and then fellow graduate at the prestigious Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. In 1936 she went back to Oxford as a lecturer in philosophy at Lady Margaret Hall and earned a Master's degree . There she married William Kneale in 1938 , who was already a fellow at Exeter College Oxford. The two children are statistician George Kneale and philosopher Jane Heal. In 1966 Husrt Kneale was made a Fellow, in 1996 she retired.

Hurst Kneale was a member of the Society for Psychical Research and the Aristotelian Society and dealt theoretically with the research of extra-sensory perception and its significance for the philosophy of mind. However, their contributions to the history of logic are more valued. For the monumental The Development of Logic , on which she and her husband worked from 1947 to 1957, she mainly wrote the chapters on the logic of ancient Greece.

Publications (selection)

  • Martha Hurst, Can the Law of Contradiction be Stated Without Reference to Time? , The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 31, No. 19, pp. 518-525, 1934
  • Martha Hurst, Implication in the Fourth Century BC , Mind, vol. 44, pp. 485-495, 1935.
  • Martha Hurst, Logical Necessity and Metaphysical Necessity , Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, vol. 38, 1937-1938.
  • Martha Hurst Kneale, Is Psychical Research Relevant to Philosophy? Proceedings, Aristotelian Society. Supplementary volume 24, 1950.
  • Martha Hurst Kneale, Time and Psychical Research. Proceedings of Four Conferences of Parapsychological Studies, 1957.
  • Martha Kneale, William C. Kneale, The Development of Logic , Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1962. ² 1984, ISBN 0-19-824773-7 , Google Book Page Preview
    • Dt: History of logic from the beginnings in ancient Greece to the philosophical developments of logic a. Mathematics according to Gottlob Frege (1848–1925). With selection bibliography and Register. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1978.
  • Martha Kneale, Our Knowledge of the Past and of the Future , Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Vol. 72, pp. 1-12, 1971/72
  • Martha Kneale, What Is the Mind-Body Problem? , Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Vol. 50, pp. 105-122, 1949/50

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pleasants, Helene, ed. Biographical Dictionary of Parapsychology. New York: Helix Press, 1964. quoted from [1]
  2. ↑ Timothy Smile, Kneale, William Calvert (1906-1990) , entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press 2004 / article57887 online edition
  3. ↑ Obituartiy in the Oxford University Gazette , 10 January 2002 online edition
  4. ↑ Pleasants, Helene, ed. Biographical Dictionary of Parapsychology. New York: Helix Press, 1964. quoted from [2]
  5. ^ Thomas Drucker / Irving H. Anellis, 'William Kneale' memorial notice, Modern Logic Volume 3, Number 2 (1993), 158-161. P. 160.

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personal data
SURNAME Kneale, Martha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hurst, Martha; Hurst Kneale, Martha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British philosopher and historian of logic
DATE OF BIRTH 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Skipton, Yorkshire, UK
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 2001