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Clarence Irving Lewis

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Gender Male
Death60 years ago
Date of birth April 12,1883
Zodiac sign Aries
Born Stoneham
Massachusetts
United States
Date of died February 3,1964
DiedMenlo Park
California
United States
Influenced Willard Van Orman Quine
Nelson Goodman
William Frankena
Robert Paul Wolff
Roderick Firth
Roderick Chisholm
Influenced by Josiah Royce
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Ralph Barton Perry
Job Philosopher
BooksMind and the World-order: Outline of a Theory of Knowledge
An analysis of knowledge and valuation
A survey of symbolic logic
The ground and nature of the right
Symbolic logic
Essays on the Foundations of Ethics
A Survey of Symbolic Logic - Scholar's Choice Edition
A Naturalistic Theory of Justice: Critical Commentary On, and Selected Readings From, C. I. Lewis' Ethics
Mind the World Order - Scholar's Choice Edition
Influence Charles Sanders Peirce
Rudolf Carnap
Immanuel Kant
Josiah Royce
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Ralph Barton Perry
Doctor student Brand Blanshard
Nelson Goodman
Roderick Chisholm
Education Harvard University
InterestsEpistemology; Logic; Ethics; Aesthetics
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Clarence Irving Lewis, usually cited as C. I. Lewis, was an American academic philosopher. He is considered the progenitor of modern modal logic and the founder of conceptual pragmatism. First a noted logician, he later branched into epistemology, and during the last 20 years of his life, he wrote much on ethics.

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