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Roy T. Cook

Disciplines:
logic
philosophy of mathematics

Summary

American philosopher of mathematics who has worked on neo-logicism, the paradoxes of self-reference, and the logic of comics.

Core Contribution

Contributed to neo-logicist debates about which abstraction principles are acceptable; developed accounts of set-theoretic paradoxes; wrote on the visual logic of comics.

Notable Works & Achievements

The Arché Papers on the Mathematics of Abstraction

A Dictionary of Philosophical Logic

Historical Influences

Crispin Wright Kit Fine

Intellectual Lineage

Analytic Philosophy of Mathematics

Contemporaries & Peers

Philip EbertPaolo Mancosu

Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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