Solomon Feferman

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Solomon Feferman

Solomon Feferman (born 13 December 1928) is an American

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philosopher and mathematician

Mathematician

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with major works in mathematical logic

Mathematical logic

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Solomon Feferman (born 13 December 1928) is an American

United States

Mathematician

A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study and/or research is the field of mathematics....
with major works in mathematical logic

Mathematical logic

Mathematical logic is a subfield of mathematics and logic with close connections to computer science and philosophical logic. The field includes the mathematical study of logic and the applications of formal logic to other areas of mathematics....
. He was born in New York City, New York, and received his Ph.D. in 1957 from the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley is a public university research university located in Berkeley, California, California, United States. The oldest of the ten major campuses affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley offers some 300 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines....
under Alfred Tarski

Alfred Tarski

Alfred Tarski was a Poles logician and mathematician. Educated in the Warsaw School of Mathematics and philosophy, he emigrated to the USA in 1939, and taught and did research in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1942 until his death....
. He is a Stanford University

Stanford University

Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private university research university located in Stanford, California, California, United States....
professor

Professor

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Feferman was awarded the Schock Prize

Schock prize

The Rolf Schock Prizes were established and endowed by bequeath of philosopher and artist Rolf Schock . The prizes were first awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1993 and have been awarded every two years since....
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

Kurt Gödel

Kurt G?del was an Austrian-United States logician, mathematician and philosopher. One of the most significant logicians of all time, G?del made an immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century, a time when many, such as Bertrand Russell, A....
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Publications

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

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at Stanford University
Stanford University

Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private university research university located in Stanford, California, California, United States....