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| Joel I. Friedman -still uit video zie eind van 't blog |
Joel I.
Friedman is Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, University of
California, Davis - UC Davis [cf.]. Er is van hem geen
pagina met informatie te vinden. Wel had Justin Weinberg vijf jaar terug op een webpagina enige informatie over Joel Friedman, die hij
o.a. van hemzelf had. Het ging Weinberg om het schema waarin Friedman de
geschiedenis samenvatte van de laatste honderd jaar van ontwikkelingen in de wiskundige
logica en fundering ervan: “Mathematical Logic and Foundations, 1847-1947.”
Joel
Friedman liet aan Justin Weinberg weten:
I finished my doctoral dissertation at UCLA in 1966, in logic and foundations of set theory, providing a new theory, called STC (“the set theory of proper classes”), which turned out to be stronger than the von Neumann/Bernays/Goedel theory of sets and proper classes. (For example, Tarski’s Axiom of Strongly Inaccessible Cardinals can be derived in my STC.) My doctoral supervisor was the prominent logician and philosopher of mathematics, Abraham Robinson. He was a real prince of a man, as well as a great mathematical logician. From 1966 to 1971, logic and foundations was my exclusive field of research, and I was hired at UC Davis in 1967 to teach various courses in this area. After 1971, I branched out into other areas of philosophy, over the decades, primarily philosophy of mathematics and science, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and early modern philosophy (Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz). Over the last 15 years, during my retirement, I have focused my research primarily in modal logic and philosophy of mathematics and science, developing a new philosophy called Modal Platonism (MP), first begun when I was a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University (1998-99), working with Bas van Fraassen. I can tell you this MP project is still thrilling to me. Lately during the last several years, I’ve been consulting about MP, with my old teacher/mentor at UCLA, David Kaplan, who was also on my doctoral committee with Robinson. Altogether van Fraassen, Otávio Bueno, Kaplan, and Bernard Molyneux (a UCD colleague) have been most instrumental in spurring me on to the completion of this project. My latest draft paper is called: “Modal Platonism is a Threat to Platonism”.
Hierna gaat hij door over de opzet en ontwikkeling van zijn “ML chart.”
I finished my doctoral dissertation at UCLA in 1966, in logic and foundations of set theory, providing a new theory, called STC (“the set theory of proper classes”), which turned out to be stronger than the von Neumann/Bernays/Goedel theory of sets and proper classes. (For example, Tarski’s Axiom of Strongly Inaccessible Cardinals can be derived in my STC.) My doctoral supervisor was the prominent logician and philosopher of mathematics, Abraham Robinson. He was a real prince of a man, as well as a great mathematical logician. From 1966 to 1971, logic and foundations was my exclusive field of research, and I was hired at UC Davis in 1967 to teach various courses in this area. After 1971, I branched out into other areas of philosophy, over the decades, primarily philosophy of mathematics and science, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and early modern philosophy (Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz). Over the last 15 years, during my retirement, I have focused my research primarily in modal logic and philosophy of mathematics and science, developing a new philosophy called Modal Platonism (MP), first begun when I was a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University (1998-99), working with Bas van Fraassen. I can tell you this MP project is still thrilling to me. Lately during the last several years, I’ve been consulting about MP, with my old teacher/mentor at UCLA, David Kaplan, who was also on my doctoral committee with Robinson. Altogether van Fraassen, Otávio Bueno, Kaplan, and Bernard Molyneux (a UCD colleague) have been most instrumental in spurring me on to the completion of this project. My latest draft paper is called: “Modal Platonism is a Threat to Platonism”.
Hierna gaat hij door over de opzet en ontwikkeling van zijn “ML chart.”
