Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh
Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh | |
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| Born | 23 April 1942 |
| Died | 6 March 2023 (aged 80) |
| Nationality | German |
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| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Philosophy of medicine |
| Region | Western science and philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy of medicine |
| Main interests | Logic, methodology, and philosophy of medicine; epistemology, applied fuzzy logic |
| Notable ideas | Computability of clinical decision-making, fuzzification of set-theoretical predicates, biopolymers represented as fuzzy sequences of numbers, medicine as a deontic field, scientific knowledge as industrial product |
Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh (/ˈzɑːdeɪ/; Persian: کاظم صادقزاده; 23 April 1942 – 6 March 2023) was a German analytic philosopher of medicine of Iranian descent. He was the first ever professor of philosophy of medicine at a German university and has made significant contributions to the philosophy, methodology, and logic of medicine since 1970.