Solomon Feferman
Solomon Feferman | |
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Solomon Feferman at the Association of Symbolic Logic, Pittsburgh, May 2004 | |
| Born | December 13, 1928 |
| Died | July 26, 2016 (aged 87) |
| Education | |
| Education | California Institute of Technology (BS) University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
| Thesis | Formal Consistency Proofs and Interpretability of Theories (1957) |
| Doctoral advisor | Alfred Tarski |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic Predicativism |
| Doctoral students | |
| Main interests | Philosophy of mathematics Proof theory Theory of computation |
| Notable ideas | Stratified systems for the foundations of category theory Feferman–Schütte ordinal Ordinal collapsing function Explicit mathematics Feferman–Vaught theorem |
Solomon Feferman (December 13, 1928 – July 26, 2016) was an American philosopher and mathematician who worked in mathematical logic. In addition to his prolific technical work in proof theory, computability theory, and set theory, he was known for his contributions to the history of logic (for instance, via biographical writings on figures such as Kurt Gödel, Alfred Tarski, and Jean van Heijenoort) and as a vocal proponent of the philosophy of mathematics known as predicativism, notably from an anti-platonist stance.