- Warren Goldfarb
Warren D. Goldfarb is a mathematician with a specialization in logic, most noted for his work on the
classical decision problem , and in particular his book on the subject, "The decision problem: Solvable classes of quantificational formulas", withBurton Dreben . He received his Ph.D. fromHarvard University . As of 2008, he is a member of the Department of Philosophy at Harvard, where he is the Walter Beverly Pearson Professor of Modern Mathematics and Mathematical Logic. He has been on the Harvard faculty since 1975, and wastenure d in 1982, the only philosopher to win tenure at Harvard over a 37-year stretch from 1962 to 1999. [ [http://chronicle.com/weekly/v45/i35/35a05601.htm Harvard Tenures First Philosopher in 17 Years] ,The Chronicle of Higher Education , May 7, 1999.]Prof. Goldfarb is also one of the founders of the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus and was one of the first openly gay Harvard faculty members. [ [http://hglc.org/about/whoswho.html Who's Who: About Us] , Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus.] [ [http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=174942 Gay Faculty Become Activists] , Melissa Lee and Anna D. Wilde,
Harvard Crimson , April 23, 1993.]Goldfarb was an editor of volumes III–V of
Kurt Gödel 's "Collected Works". He has published work on the history ofanalytic philosophy , including papers onFrege , Russell, Wittgenstein's early and later work,Carnap and Quine.References
External links
* [http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~phildept/goldfarb.html Goldfarb's web page at Harvard University]
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