Stig Kanger
Stig Kanger (born July 10, 1924 in Guling / China ; † March 13, 1988 ) was a Swedish philosopher and logician. Alongside Georg Henrik von Wright and Jaakko Hintikka, he is an important representative of analytical philosophy in Scandinavia, dealt with legal philosophy and has been professor of theoretical philosophy at Uppsala University since 1968 .
life and work
Kanger was the son of a missionary couple and received his PhD in philosophy from Stockholm University in 1957 . 1963 to 1968 he was a professor at the Åbo Akademi and then in Uppsala. In 1968/69 he was visiting professor at the University of California.
He is known for contributions to modal logic and its applications in philosophy (e.g. legal philosophy), Possible Worlds of Semantics (the founder of which is usually considered to be Saul Kripke ), Logic of Action , proof theory and Deontic logic . Among other things, the Anderson-Kanger reduction is named after him and Alan Ross Anderson (after independent work by the two of them in the 1950s) and occasionally the Kanger-Lindahl theory (also after his student Lars Lindahl, who further developed it).
His wife Helle Kanger used his methods to analyze the Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.
In 1972 he became a Knight of the North Star Order .
Fonts
- Ghita Holmström-Hintikka, Sten Lindström, Rysiek Sliwinski (Eds.): Collected Papers of Stig Kanger with Essays on his Life and Work. 2 volumes, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht 2001.
- New Foundations for Ethical Theory (1957, Technical Report, Stockholm University), In: Risto Hilpinen (Ed.): Deontic Logic: Introductory and Systematic Readings. Reidel 1971, pp. 36-58.
- Law and Logic. Theoria, Vol. 38, 1972, pp. 105-132.
- Editor with Sven Ohman Logic and Grammar. Reidel, Kluwer 1981.
- Provability in Logic. Stockholm 1957 (dissertation).
- Editor of the Proceedings of the third Scandinavian Logic Symposium. (Uppsala 1973), North Holland / Elsevier 1975.
- Handbok i logic. Volume 1, 1959.
literature
- Sören Stenlund (Ed.) Logical theory and semantic analysis: essays dedicated to Stig Kanger on his fiftieth birthday. Reidel 1974.
- Kanger, Stig . In: Vem är det. Svensk biografisk handbok 1985 . 37th volume PA Norstedt & Söners Förlag, Stockholm 1984, ISBN 91-1843222-0 , p. 576 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Whereby he took up the ideas of the American lawyer Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld (1879–1918)
- ^ Logic of Action, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- ^ Paul McNamara Deontic Logic, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- ^ Lars Lindahl Position and Change , Reidel 1977
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kanger, Stig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish philosopher and logician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 10, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Guling |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 13, 1988 |