James Garson

James Garson is an American philosopher and logician. He has made significant contributions in the study of modal logic[1] and formal semantics. He is author of Modal Logic for Philosophers and What Logics Mean by Cambridge University Press.[2] Garson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Houston and has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Illinois at Chicago (where he was a visiting professor in computer science), and Rice University.[3]

James Garson
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic
Main interests
Logic, modal logic, philosophy of mind, neural networks, formal semantics, linguistics, cognitive science, education

References
  1. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-modal/
  2. http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item1163165/?site_locale=en_GB
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-08-07. Retrieved 2011-01-28.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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