About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 50. Chapters: Kurt Godel, Alonzo Church, Charles Sanders Peirce, Raymond Smullyan, Haskell Curry, George Boolos, Clarence Irving Lewis, John Corcoran, Ralph Johnson, Paul Halmos, Bas van Fraassen, Rohit Jivanlal Parikh, Leon Henkin, Paul Benacerraf, Hao Wang, Raphael M. Robinson, Richard Montague, James F. Allen, Herbert Enderton, Colin McLarty, Henry M. Sheffer, Jon Barwise, Richard Jeffrey, J. Barkley Rosser, Gila Sher, Ronald Jensen, Edward Nelson, Matthew Foreman, Tomek Bartoszy ski, Jack Silver, Penelope Maddy, Alan Ross Anderson, Hartley Rogers, Jr., James Earl Baumgartner, Robert M. Solovay, W. Hugh Woodin, John Etchemendy, Nate Ackerman, Leo Harrington, Solomon Feferman, Richard Shore, Yiannis N. Moschovakis, Elliott Mendelson, Harvey Friedman, Theodore Slaman, Neil Tennant, Charles Parsons, Steven Kuhn, Valentina Harizanov, Benson Mates, Alice Ambrose, Peter B. Andrews, David Blitz, Gerald Sacks, Irving Copi, Frederic Brenton Fitch, Nuel Belnap, Donald A. Martin, Bob Meyer, Michael Detlefsen, James Garson, John R. Steel, Alexander S. Kechris, John P. Burgess, Isaac Malitz, Jeffrey A. Barrett. Excerpt: Charles Sanders Peirce ( like "purse"; September 10, 1839 - April 19, 1914) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist, born at 3 Phillips Place in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Peirce was educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for 30 years. Today he is appreciated largely for his contributions to logic, mathematics, philosophy, and semiotics, and for his founding of pragmatism. In 1934, the philosopher Paul Weiss called Peirce "the most original and versatile of American philosophers and America's greatest logician." An innovator in mathematics, statistics, philosophy, research methodology, and various sciences, Peirce considered himself a logician first and foremost. He made major...
