John Corcoran
John Corcoran (born 1937) is a logician, philosopher, mathematician, and historian of logic.
Biography
He is best known for his philosophical work on concepts such as the nature of inference, relations between conditions, argument-deduction-proof distinctions, the relationship between logic and epistemology, and the place of proof theory and model theory in logic.
Nine of Corcoran’s papers have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Persian, and Arabic; his 1989 "signature" essay was translated into three languages. Fourteen of his papers have been reprinted; one was reprinted twice.
His work on Aristotle’s logic of the Prior Analytics is regarded as being highly faithful both to the Greek text and to the historical context. It is the basis for many subsequent investigations. It was adopted for the 1989 translation of the Prior Analytics by Robin Smith and for the 2009 translation of the Prior Analytics Book A by Gisela Striker.
Corcoran’s 2014 paper with Hassan Masoud – “Existential import today: New metatheorems; historical, philosophical, and pedagogical misconceptions” – is currently first on the “most-read” list at History and Philosophy of Logic.
His mathematical results on definitional equivalence of formal string theories, sciences of strings of characters over finite alphabets, are foundational for logic, formal linguistics, and computer science.
See also
External links
- John Corcoran @ Wikipedia.org
