Martha Kneale

Martha Kneale, nee Hurst (* 1909, † December 2, 2001 ) was a British philosopher and historian logic. Larger notoriety she gained through the co-authored with her ​​husband William Kneale history of formal logic The Development of Logic (1962 ), which is still regarded as the standard work in this field.

Life and work

Martha Hurst Kneale was born as Martha Hurst in Skipton, Yorkshire. After she graduated 1929-33 at Somerville College, Oxford with a BA had finished, she first went to the USA where she Graham Kenan Fellow at the University of North Carolina first ( to 1934 ) and then graduate fellow at the prestigious Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. In 1936 she returned as a lecturer in philosophy at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and earned a master 's degree. There she married in 1938 William Kneale, who already was a Fellow at Exeter College Oxford at the time. The children of the two are the statistician George Kneale and philosopher Jane Heal. 1966 Husrt Kneale was appointed Fellow, in 1996 she became Professor Emeritus.

Hurst Kneale was a member of the Society for Psychical Research and the Aristotelian Society and dealt theoretically with the research out - sensory perception and their significance for the philosophy of mind. However, will be higher appreciated their contributions to the history of logic. For the monumental The Development of Logic, where she and her husband worked from 1947-1957, she wrote especially the chapter on the logic of Greek antiquity.

Publications (selection)

  • Martha Hurst, Can the Law of Contradiction be Stated Without Reference to Time? , The Journal of Philosophy, Vol 31, No. 19, pp. 518-525, 1934
  • Martha Hurst, Implication in the Fourth Century BC, Mind, vol.44, S.485 -495, 1935.
  • Martha Hurst, Logical Necessity and Metaphysical Necessity, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, vol. 38 1937 - 1938.
  • Martha Hurst Kneale, Is Psychical Research Relevant to Philosophy? Proceedings, Aristotelian Society. Supplementary volume 24, 1950.
  • Martha Hurst Kneale, Time and Psychical Research. Proceedings of Four Conferences of Parapsychological Studies, 1957.
  • Martha Kneale, William C. Kneale, The Development of Logic, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1962. ² 1984, ISBN 0-19-824773-7, Google book preview page Dt: history of logic from its beginnings in ancient Greece to the philosophical developments of logic and mathematics by Gottlob Frege ( 1848-1925 ). With the Select Bibliography & register. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1978.
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