Warren Goldfarb

Warren David Goldfarb (born 1949) is Walter Beverly Pearson Professor of Modern Mathematics and Mathematical Logic at Harvard University. He specializes in the history of analytic philosophy and in logic, most notably the classical decision problem.

Education and career

He received his A.B. and

• The Decision Problem: Solvable Classes of Quantificational Formulas, Addison-Wesley, 1979.
  ISBN 0-201-02540-X (with Burton Dreben
  ).
• Deductive Logic, Hackett, 2003.

• "Logic in the Twenties: the Nature of the Quantifier," The Journal of Symbolic Logic (1979)
• "I want you to bring me a slab: Remarks on the opening sections of the Philosophical Investigations," Synthese (1983)
• "Kripke on Wittgenstein on Rules," The Journal of Philosophy (1985)
• "Poincare Against the Logicists," in History and Philosophy of Modern Mathematics (University of Minnesota Press, 1987)
• "Wittgenstein on Understanding," Midwest Studies in Philosophy (1992)
• "Frege's Conception of Logic," in Future Pasts: The Analytic Tradition in the 20th Century, Juliet Floyd and Sanford Shieh, editors (Oxford University Press, 2001)
• “Rule-Following Revisited," in Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Mind, Jonathan Ellis and Daniel Guevara, editors (Oxford University Press, 2012).
• "The Undecidability of the Second-Order Unification Problem" (PDF). Theoretical Computer Science. 13: 225–230. 1981.
  doi:10.1016/0304-3975(81)90040-2
  .

External links

• Goldfarb's web page at Harvard University
• Works by Warren Goldfarb at PhilPapers

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