Английская Википедия:Alasdair Urquhart

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Alasdair Ian Fenton Urquhart (Шаблон:IPAc-en; born 20 December 1945) is a Scottish–Canadian philosopher and emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto.[1][2] He has made contributions to the field of logic, especially non-classical logic.[3] One of his ideas is proving the undecidability of the relevance logic R. He also published papers in theoretical computer science venues, mostly on mathematical logic topics of relevance to computer science.

Early life

Urquhart is a native of Scotland.[4] He received his MA in philosophy from the University of Edinburgh in 1967.[1][2] He then attended the University of Pittsburgh, receiving an MA and Ph.D. in 1973 under the supervision of Alan Ross Anderson and Nuel Belnap.[1][2]

Career

From 1973 to 1975, Urquhart was an assistant professor at Erindale College, University of Toronto Mississauga.[2] He became an associate professor there in 1975.[2] Starting in 1986, Urquhart was a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto.[1][2]

From 1983 to 1989, Urquhart was a consulting editor for the Journal of Symbolic Logic.[2] He was also an editor of Canadian Philosophical Monographs.[2] In 2003, he became the managing editor of reviews for The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic.[5]

He is currently on the Council of the Division for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (2020–2023).[6]

Selected publications

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  5. Leng, Mary. "Reviews". The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 8, no. 4 (2002): 516. via JSTOR. Шаблон:Doi.
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