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Professor Dana Scott FBA

Philosophy
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1976
Subjects
Philosophy
Sections
Philosophy

Current post

Hillman University Professor of Computer Science, Mathematical Logic and Philosophy Emeritus, Carnegie Mellon University

Past appointments

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg Hillman University Professor of Computer Science, Philosophy and Mathematical Logic

1981 -

University of Oxford Professor of Mathematical Logic

1972 - 1981

Publications

Semantic domains Handbook of the theoretical computer science: formal models and semantics 1990

Symbolic computation and teaching Artificial intelligence and symbolic mathematical computation, AISMC-3 1996

Type theory via exact categories Proceedings of the 13th annual IEEE symposium on Logic in Computer Science 1998

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Professor Helen Beebee FBA

Metaphysics of science, in particular causation, laws of nature and natural kinds; the metaphysics of free will and moral responsibility; the epistemology of analytic philosophy

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Professor M. M. McCabe FBA

Philosophy: Ancient philosophy especially Plato's metaphysics, epistemology and ethics; ethics; the philosophy of medicine

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Professor Susan Wolf FBA

Susan Wolf is the Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Emerita, where she taught from 2002 till 2022.

Photo credit: Keiko Ikeuchi

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