Richard Montague
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Richard Merritt Montague (September 20, 1930 – March 7, 1971) was an
ZFC). For the latter half of his life, he was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles until his early death, believed to be a homicide
, at age 40.
Career
At the
UCLA Department of Philosophy, where he supervised the dissertations of Nino Cocchiarella and Hans Kamp
.
Montague wrote on the foundations of
ZFC
must contain infinitely many axioms. In other words, ZFC cannot be finitely axiomatized.
He pioneered a logical approach to natural language
Discourse Representation Theory
).
Montague was an accomplished organist and a successful real estate investor. He died violently in his own home; the crime is unsolved to this day.
Anita Feferman and Solomon Feferman argue that he usually went to bars "cruising" and bringing people home with him.[2] On the day that he was murdered, he brought home several people "for some kind of soirée", but they strangled him.[2]
In popular culture
Three novels have been inspired by the life and death of Richard M. Montague:
- The Mad Man by American science fiction author Samuel R. Delany (1994)
- Less Than Meets the Eye by American philosopher David Berlinski (1994)
- The Semantics of Murder by Irish writer Aifric Campbell (2008)
See also
- American philosophy
- List of American philosophers
- List of unsolved murders
Notes
- ^ Montague, Richard Merritt (June 1957). Contributions to the axiomatic foundations of set theory (PhD). University of California, Berkeley.
- ^ a b Feferman and Feferman 2004: 332-3
References
- Feferman, Anita, and Solomon Feferman, 2004. Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic. Cambridge Univ. Press.
- Donald Kalish, and Montague, Richard, 1964. Logic: Techniques of Formal Reasoning. Harcourt, Brace, and Jovanovich.
- Donald Kalish, and Montague, Richard, and Mar, Gary, 1980. Logic: Techniques of Formal Reasoning (second edition). Oxford University Press.
- Montague, Richard, 1974. ISBN 0-300-01527-5)
- Partee, Barbara H., 2006, "Richard Montague (1930 - 1971)" in Brown, Keith, ed., Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Vol. 8, 2nd ed. Oxford: Elsevier: 255–57. Includes a bibliography of the secondary literature on Montague and his eponymous grammar.
External links
- Richard Montague at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- "Montague, Richard (1930–1971) ." Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Encyclopedia.com.
- Montague Semantics at Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- RICHARD MONTAGUE 1930-1971 memorial page by Ivano Caponigro published on the fiftieth anniversary of his death
- That’s Just Semantics! (or, the Proper Treatment of Richard Montague in Literary Fiction) (Archived by Wayback Machine).
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