Burton Dreben
Burton Spencer Dreben (September 27, 1927 – July 11, 1999) was an American philosopher specializing in mathematical logic. A Harvard graduate who taught at his alma mater for most of his career (where he retired as Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy Emeritus), he published little but was a teacher and a critic of the work of his colleagues (Floyd & Shieh 2001).
Burton Dreben | |
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| Born | Burton Spencer Dreben September 27, 1927 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | July 11, 1999 (aged 71) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy |
| Doctoral advisor | Willard Van Orman Quine |
| Doctoral students | Charles Parsons, T. M. Scanlon |
Main interests | Mathematical logic History of analytic philosophy |
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