Charles Parsons (philosopher)
Charles Parsons | |
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Parsons in 2004 | |
| Born | Charles Dacre Parsons April 13, 1933 Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | April 19, 2024 (aged 91) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Education | |
| Education | Harvard University (Ph.D., 1961) |
| Doctoral advisor | Burton Dreben, Willard Van Orman Quine |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic |
| Doctoral students | Michael Levin, James Higginbotham, Peter Ludlow, Gila Sher, Øystein Linnebo |
| Main interests | Philosophy of mathematics |
| Notable ideas | The distinction between "intuition-of" and "intuition-that" |
Charles Dacre Parsons (April 13, 1933 – April 19, 2024) was an American philosopher best known for his work in the philosophy of mathematics and the study of the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. He was professor emeritus at Harvard University. In a 2014 review of one of his books, Stewart Shapiro and Teresa Kouri said of Parsons: "It surely goes without saying that [he] is one of the most important philosophers of mathematics in our generation".