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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="de" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="de" dir="ltr"><p><b>George Stephen Boolos</b> (* <a href="4._September" title="4. September">4. September</a> <a href="1940" title="1940">1940</a> in <a href="New_York_City" title="New York City">New York</a>; † <a href="27._Mai" title="27. Mai">27. Mai</a> <a href="1996" title="1996">1996</a> in <a href="Cambridge_(Massachusetts)" title="Cambridge (Massachusetts)">Cambridge, Massachusetts</a>) war ein US-amerikanischer <a href="Philosoph" title="Philosoph">Philosoph</a> und <a href="Logik" title="Logik">Logiker</a>.
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<p>1961 machte Boolos den <a href="B.A." class="mw-redirect" title="B.A.">B.A.</a> in <a href="Mathematik" title="Mathematik">Mathematik</a> an der <a href="Princeton_University" title="Princeton University">Princeton University</a>, 1963 den <a href="Bachelor" title="Bachelor">B.Phil.</a> an der <a href="Oxford_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxford University">Oxford University</a>, 1966 den <a href="Ph.D." title="Ph.D.">Ph.D.</a> in <a href="Philosophie" title="Philosophie">Philosophie</a> am <a href="Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology" title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a> (MIT). Dies war der erste Ph.D. in Philosophie, der beim MIT vergeben worden ist, Doktorvater war <a href="Hilary_Putnam" title="Hilary Putnam">Hilary Putnam</a>. Boolos war drei Jahre Lehrer an der <a href="Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a>. Ab 1969 lehrte er am MIT, bis er an <a href="Krebs_(Medizin)" title="Krebs (Medizin)">Krebs</a> starb.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Anfangs beschäftigte sich Boolos mit der Erweiterung von <a href="Kurt_G%C3%B6del" title="Kurt Gödel">Kurt Gödels</a> Beweis-Logik.
</p><p>Später befasste er sich intensiv mit <a href="Gottlob_Frege" title="Gottlob Frege">Gottlob Frege</a>. Zusammen mit <a href="Crispin_Wright" title="Crispin Wright">Crispin Wright</a> bewies er die Konsistenz eines modifizierten Systems von Freges <i>Grundgesetzen</i>: Ersetzt man das <a href="Grundgesetz_der_Werthverl%C3%A4ufe" title="Grundgesetz der Werthverläufe">Grundgesetz der Werthverläufe</a> durch <a href="Humes_Prinzip" title="Humes Prinzip">Humes Prinzip</a>, so vermeidet man die <a href="Russellsche_Antinomie" title="Russellsche Antinomie">Russellsche Antinomie</a>. Damit begründeten die beiden den Neo-<a href="Logizismus" title="Logizismus">Logizismus</a>.
</p><p>1992 wurde Boolos in die <a href="American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences" title="American Academy of Arts and Sciences">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a> gewählt.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Werke_von_Boolos">Werke von Boolos</h2></div>
<ul><li>2007 (1974) (with Richard Jeffrey). <i>Computability and Logic</i>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.</li>
<li>1979. <i>The Unprovability of Consistency: An Essay in <a href="Modallogik" title="Modallogik">Modal Logic</a></i>. Cambridge University Press.</li>
<li>1990 (editor). <i>Meaning and Method: Essays in Honor of <a href="Hilary_Putnam" title="Hilary Putnam">Hilary Putnam</a></i>. Cambridge University Press.</li>
<li>1993. <i>The Logic of Provability</i>. Cambridge University Press.</li>
<li>1998 (Richard Jeffrey and John P. Burgess, eds.). <i>Logic, Logic, and Logic</i>. Harvard University Press.</li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://web.mit.edu/philos/www/jjt-rlc-jc.html">MIT faculty resolution on Boolos' death</a></span>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Literatur">Literatur</h2></div>
<ul><li>Peter Simons (1982). „On understanding Lesniewski,“ <i>History and Philosophy of Logic</i>.</li>
<li><a href="Solomon_Feferman" title="Solomon Feferman">Solomon Feferman</a> (1960). „Arithmetization of metamathematics in a general setting,“ <i>Fundamentae Mathematica</i>, vol. 49, pp.&nbsp;35–92.</li></ul>
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</style><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090311134547/http://web.mit.edu/philos/www/boolos.html">MIT-Erinnerungsseite für George Boolos</a> (<span class="webarchiv-memento"><a href="Webarchivierung#Begrifflichkeiten" title="Webarchivierung">Memento</a></span> vom 11. März 2009 im <i><a href="Internet_Archive" title="Internet Archive">Internet Archive</a></i>)</li>
<li>George Boolos: <cite class="lang" lang="en" dir="auto" style="font-style:italic">The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever</cite>. In: <cite class="lang" lang="en" dir="auto" style="font-style:italic">The Harvard Review of Philosophy</cite>. 6. Jahrgang, <span style="white-space:nowrap">Nr.<span style="display:inline-block;width:.2em">&nbsp;</span>1</span>, 1996, <span style="white-space:nowrap">S.<span style="display:inline-block;width:.2em">&nbsp;</span>62–65</span>, <a href="Digital_Object_Identifier" title="Digital Object Identifier">doi</a>:<span class="uri-handle" style="white-space:nowrap"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.5840/harvardreview1996615">10.5840/harvardreview1996615</a></span> (englisch, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120622100021/http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hrp/issues/1996/Boolos.pdf">hcs.harvard.edu</a> (<span class="webarchiv-memento"><a href="Webarchivierung#Begrifflichkeiten" title="Webarchivierung">Memento</a></span> des <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r250917974">
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