Max Black
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Max Black (24 February 1909 – 27 August 1988) was an Azerbaijani-born British-American philosopher who was a leading figure in
Life and career
Born in
, where his family had moved in 1912.He studied mathematics at
From 1931–36, he was mathematics master at the
His first book was The Nature of Mathematics (1933), an exposition of Principia Mathematica and of current developments in the philosophy of mathematics.
Black made notable contributions to the metaphysics of identity. In his "The Identity of Indiscernibles", Black presents an objection to Leibniz' Law by means of a hypothetical scenario in which he conceives two distinct spheres having exactly the same properties, thereby contradicting Leibniz' second principle in his formulation of "The Identity of Indiscernibles". By virtue of there being two objects, albeit with identical properties, the existence of two objects, even in a void, denies their identicality.
He lectured in mathematics at the
Selected bibliography
- Max Black, (1933) The Nature of Mathematics: A Critical Survey[4]
- Black, Max (1937). "Vagueness: An exercise in logical analysis". Philosophy of Science 4: 427–55. Reprinted in R. Keefe, P. Smith (eds.): Vagueness: A Reader, MIT Press 1997, ISBN 978-0262611459
- Black, Max (1938). "The Evolution of Positivism" Modern Quarterly, Vol. 1. No. 1.
- Black, Max (1949). Language and philosophy: Studies in method, Ithaca: Cornell University Press. [ISBN missing]
- Black, Max (1954). "Metaphor", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 55, pp. 273–94.
- Black, Max (1954). Problems of Analysis: Philosophical Essays, Cornell University Press
- Black, Max. "Linguistic relativity: The views of benjamin lee whorf", The Philosophical Review. Vol. 68, No. 2, (April 1959). pp. 228–38.
- Black, Max (1962). Models and metaphors: Studies in language and philosophy, Ithaca: Cornell University Press. [ISBN missing]
- Black, Max (1964). A Companion to Wittgenstein's Tractatus, Cornell University Press
- Black, Max (1968). The Labyrinth of Language, Praeger
- Black, Max (1970). Margins of Precision: Essays in Logic and Language, Cornell University Press
- Black, Max (1975). Caveats and Critiques: Philosophical Essays in Language, Logic, and Art, Cornell University Press
- Black, Max (1979). "More about Metaphor", in A. Ortony (ed): Metaphor & Thought. [ISBN missing]
- Black, Max (1981). Language and Philosophy: Studies in Method, Praeger
- Black, Max (1985). The Prevalence of Humbug and Other Essays, Cornell University Press
- Black, Max (1990). Perplexities: Rational Choice, the Prisoner's Dilemma, Metaphor, Poetic Ambiguity, and Other Puzzles, Cornell University Press
References
- ^ "Emily Elizabeth Constance Jones (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)". Plato.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-28.
- ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed.
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved July 26, 2011.
- ISSN 0002-9904.
External links
- M.H. Abrams, Sydney S. Shoemaker, Benjamin M. Siegel, Milton E. Konvitz, "Max Black" Cornell University Memorial Statement (1998)
- O'Connor, J.J. and Robertson, E.F., "Max Black: Biography", School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland.
- Biography at the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
- Guide to the Max Black Papers, Cornell University Library
- The Prevalence of Humbug, The Prevalence of Humbug and Other Essays (Cornell University Press, 1983).