J.C.C. McKinsey

John Charles Chenoweth McKinsey (* 1908, † October 26, 1953 in Palo Alto, also JCC McKinsey McKinsey and Chen ): p 141 was an American mathematician, known for his work in the fields of mathematical logic and game theory. He also made significant contributions to modal logic.

Life

McKinsey received a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science degree from New York University and earned his doctorate in 1936 at the University of California. His dissertation, supervised by Benjamin Abraham Bernstein, was entitled On Boolean functions of many variables. He was Blumenthal Research Fellow at New York University from 1936 to 1937 and a Guggenheim Fellow from 1942 to 1943. During his time in New York was a close friendship with Alfred Tarski. McKinsey taught at Montana State College in Nevada, finally in Oklahoma until 1947 a research group of the Douglas Aircraft Corporation, later joined RAND Corporation, . P 161

McKinsey worked for the RAND until his dismissal in 1951. Due to his homosexuality, the FBI had his continued employment declared as a security risk, although McKinsey had never made ​​a secret and lived in a committed relationship for years. Compared with superiors he should have complained: "How can anyone threaten me with disclosure When Everybody already knows? ". After 1951, he taught at Stanford University, where he was a full professor of Philosophy was awarded later. There he worked with Patrick Suppes on the axiomatization of classical mechanics. S. 232 He died in 1953, probably by suicide at his home in Palo Alto.

Works (selection)

  • JCC McKinsey: Introduction to the Theory of Games. Dover Publications, New York 2003, ISBN 0486428117th
  • JCC McKinsey, A New Definition of Truth, synthesis vol 7, 1948, pp. 428 - 433
  • List of online available publications on philpapers.org:
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