Rolf Schock
Rolf Günther Gustav Schock (born April 5, 1933 in Cap d'Ail , † December 5, 1986 in Berlin ) was a Swedish-American philosopher and logician . Since 1993, a foundation has been awarding the renowned Rolf Schock Prize in four disciplines from his estate .
Career
Rolf Günther Gustav Schock was born as the son of the German family Adolf Gustav Schock and his wife Caroline Pauline, (née Luce), who moved to France in 1931 and later emigrated to the United States via Lisbon . Rolf became an American citizen and called himself Roy Gunther Schock. He attended schools in New York and New Jersey and studied geology, mathematics and philosophy at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque , 1955 he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA).
He completed postgraduate studies in philosophy at the University of California, first with Donald Kalish and Rudolf Carnap in Berkeley , then in Los Angeles . Here he was mainly interested in the ideas of the philosopher Richard Montague , whose logical questions and their usability for philosophy occupied him throughout his life.
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In 1960 Schock moved to Sweden , where he continued his studies at Stockholm University and where he obtained a Master's Degree (Swedish: Fil. Lic.) In 1964 . In 1968 he received his doctorate at Uppsala University on a topic on non-classical logic (free logic). He then became a junior professor for a short time and gave lectures in Uppsala and Stockholm, before the Royal Technical University of Stockholm (Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan KTH) served as a base for his research as a private scholar. He also studied at Konstfack in Stockholm, an art school for art, craft and design, and developed into a passionate painter and photographer. In 1979 he had an exhibition with his pictures in a gallery in Stockholm.
Schock published works on the logic and philosophy of science, including several books and a large number of articles in international journals. He found little approval in his attempt to refute Albert Einstein's theory of relativity for logical reasons.
In the fall of 1986, Schock gave a lecture on free logic in the Soviet Union based on his dissertation. He died in late 1986 while repairing his Land Rover in Berlin. He left behind a handsome fortune, which he inherited from his father in the mid-1960s, half of which was used to promote the arts and sciences. The Rolf-shock Foundation awards - based on the Nobel Prize - since 1993 prizes in four categories: logic and philosophy, mathematics, visual arts and music. The winners are selected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (2), the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts , and the Royal Swedish Academy of Music .
Fonts
- Logic , Almqvist & Wiksell, 1967
- Logics without existence assumption s, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1968
- New foundations for concept theory , Issue 12 of Library of theoria, Gleerup, 1969
- Quasi-connectives definable in concept theory , edition 13 of Library of theoria, Gleerup, 1971
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| SURNAME | Shock, Rolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schock, Rolf Günther Gustav (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish-American philosopher and logician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 5, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cap d'Ail |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th December 1986 |
| Place of death | Berlin |