Cooper Harold Langford
Cooper Harold Langford | |
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| Born | August 25, 1895 |
| Died | August 28, 1964 (aged 69) |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | Harvard (Ph.D.) Clark University (A.B.) |
| Doctoral advisor | Edwin Boring |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy |
| Institutions | Michigan (1929–1964) University of Washington (1927–1929) Harvard (1925–1927) |
| Doctoral students | Arthur Burks |
| Main interests | Mathematical logic |
| Notable ideas | Langford–Moore paradox Langford substitution test |
Cooper Harold Langford (25 August 1895, Dublin, Logan County, Arkansas – 28 August 1964) was an American analytic philosopher and mathematical logician who co-authored the book Symbolic Logic (1932) with C. I. Lewis. He is also known for introducing the Langford–Moore paradox.