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I.L. Humberstone

Disciplines:
logic
philosophy/philosophy of language

Summary

Australian philosopher who has made extensive contributions to the philosophy of language and modal logic, particularly concerning the analysis of connectives and the logic of indexicals.

Core Contribution

The Connectives: an encyclopedic study of logical connectives and their properties. Developed 'from' connectives — logical operators defined by their inferential role rather than truth tables. Contributed to two-dimensional semantics.

Notable Works & Achievements

The Connectives

Functional Dependencies and the Propositional Calculus

Historical Influences

Arthur Prior A. N. Prior

Intellectual Lineage

Analytic Philosophy Australian Logic

Contemporaries & Peers

David Lewis Frank Jackson

Minds Influenced

No recorded minds influenced.

Intellectual Posterity

Philosophical Logic

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