William Kneale
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William Calvert Kneale (22 June 1906 – 24 June 1990) was an
Life and work
Kneale's interest in the
Kneale worked on his great history of logic from 1947 to 1957 together with his wife Martha (who was responsible for the chapters on the ancient Greeks). The result was the 800-page The Development of Logic, first published in 1962, which went through five impressions before going into a second, paperback, edition in 1984.
The 'History' is commonly referred to in the academic world simply as "Kneale and Kneale". It was the only major history of logic available in English in the mid-twentieth century, and the first major history of logic in English since The Development of Symbolic Logic published in 1906 by A. T. Shearman. The treatise has been a standard work in the history of logic for decades.
In 1938 he married Martha Hurst; they had two children, George (born 1942) and Jane (married name Heal); born 1946).
References
- Thomas Drucker and Irving H. Anellis, 'William Kneale' memorial notice, Modern Logic Volume 3, Number 2 (1993), 158–161.
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