Irving Copi
Encyclopedia
Irving Marmer Copi was an American
philosopher
, logic
ian, and university textbook author.
Copi taught at the University of Illinois
, the United States Air Force Academy
, Princeton University
, and the Georgetown University
Logic Institute, before teaching logic
at the University of Michigan
, 1958-69, and at the University of Hawaii at Manoa
, 1969-90.
Copi is probably best known as the author of Introduction to Logic and Informal Logic, both widely used, with the former currently in its 13th edition.
United States
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philosopher
Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
, logic
Logic
In philosophy, Logic is the formal systematic study of the principles of valid inference and correct reasoning. Logic is used in most intellectual activities, but is studied primarily in the disciplines of philosophy, mathematics, semantics, and computer science...
ian, and university textbook author.
Copi taught at the University of Illinois
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...
, the United States Air Force Academy
United States Air Force Academy
The United States Air Force Academy is an accredited college for the undergraduate education of officer candidates for the United States Air Force. Its campus is located immediately north of Colorado Springs in El Paso County, Colorado, United States...
, Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
, and the Georgetown University
Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...
Logic Institute, before teaching logic
Logic
In philosophy, Logic is the formal systematic study of the principles of valid inference and correct reasoning. Logic is used in most intellectual activities, but is studied primarily in the disciplines of philosophy, mathematics, semantics, and computer science...
at the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
, 1958-69, and at the University of Hawaii at Manoa
University of Hawaii at Manoa
The University of Hawaii at Mānoa is a public, co-educational university and is the flagship campus of the greater University of Hawaii system...
, 1969-90.
Copi is probably best known as the author of Introduction to Logic and Informal Logic, both widely used, with the former currently in its 13th edition.
Books by Copi
- 1969 (1953). Introduction to Logic. Macmillan.
- 1954. Symbolic Logic. Macmillan.
- 1965 (edited with Paul Hente). Language, Thought and Culture. The University of Michigan Press.
- 1966 (edited with Robert Beard). Essays on Wittgenstein's Tractatus.
- 1967 (edited with James Gould). Contemporary Readings in Logical Theory. Macmillan.
- 1971. The theory of logical types. Routledge and Kegan Paul.
- 1986 (with Keith Burgess-Jackson). Informal Logic. Macmillan.