Richard Cartwright (philosopher)
Richard Cartwright | |
|---|---|
| Born | Richard Lee Cartwright 1925 |
| Died | 2010 |
| Spouse | Helen Morris |
| Education | |
| Education | Oberlin College (B.A., 1945) Brown University (Ph.D., 1954) |
| Thesis | Logical Constructions (1954) |
| Doctoral advisor | Curt John Ducasse Roderick Chisholm |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic |
| Institutions | University of Michigan Wayne State University MIT |
| Doctoral students | Richard Boyd |
| Main interests | Philosophy of language |
| Notable ideas | All-in-one principle (the objects in any domain of discourse form a set) |
Richard Lee Cartwright (1925–2010) was an American philosopher of language and emeritus professor of philosophy at MIT.