Solomon Feferman

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Solomon Feferman (born 13 December 1928) is an American philosopher and mathematician with major works in mathematical logic. He was born in New York City, New York, and received his Ph.D. in 1957 from the University of California, Berkeley under Alfred Tarski. He is a Stanford University professor.

Feferman was awarded the Schock Prize in logic and philosophy in 2003 and delivered the Tarski Lectures in 2006.

Feferman was the editor-in-chief of the Collected Works of Kurt Gödel.

[edit] Publications

• In the Light of Logic (Oxford University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-19-508030-0, Logic and Computation in Philosophy series) review.

[edit] External links

• Solomon Feferman official website at Stanford University
• Solomon Feferman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

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