Solomon Feferman is an American

United States

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 philosopher and mathematician

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 with major works in mathematical logic

Mathematical logic

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He was born in New York City, New York, and received his Ph.D. in 1957 from the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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 under Alfred Tarski

Alfred Tarski

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. He is a Stanford University

Stanford University

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 professor

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Feferman was awarded the Schock Prize

Schock prize

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 in logic and philosophy in 2003 and delivered the Tarski Lectures in 2006.

Feferman was the editor-in-chief of the Collected Works of Kurt Gödel

Kurt Gödel

Kurt Friedrich Gödel was an Austrian logician, mathematician and philosopher. Later in his life he emigrated to the United States to escape the effects of World War II. One of the most significant logicians of all time, Gödel made an immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the...

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Publications

• In the Light of Logic (Oxford University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-19-508030-0, Logic and Computation in Philosophy series) review.
• Avigad, J.; Feferman, S. (1998) Gödel's functional (``Dialectica) interpretation. Handbook of proof theory, 337--405, Stud. Logic Found. Math., 137, North-Holland, Amsterdam.
• Feferman, S.; Vaught, R. L. (1959) The first order properties of products of algebraic systems. Fund. Math. 47, 57--103.
• Feferman, Solomon (1979) Constructive theories of functions and classes. Logic Colloquium '78 (Mons, 1978), pp. 159--224, Stud. Logic Foundations Math., 97, North-Holland, Amsterdam-New York.
• Feferman, Solomon (1975) A language and axioms for explicit mathematics. Algebra and logic (Fourteenth Summer Res. Inst., Austral. Math. Soc., Monash Univ., Clayton, 1974), pp. 87--139. Lecture Notes in Math., Vol. 450, Springer, Berlin.
• Buchholz, Wilfried; Feferman, Solomon; Pohlers, Wolfram; Sieg, Wilfried (1981) Iterated inductive definitions and subsystems of analysis: recent proof-theoretical studies. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 897. Springer-Verlag, Berlin-New York.
• Feferman, Solomon; Hellman, Geoffrey
  Geoffrey Hellman
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   (1995) Predicative foundations of arithmetic. J. Philos. Logic 24, no. 1, 1--17.

External links

• Solomon Feferman official website at Stanford University
  Stanford University
  The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...