Joseph Henry Woodger
Joseph Henry Woodger ( born 2 May 1894 in Great Yarmouth, † March 8, 1981 ) was a British biology theorists, logician and philosopher whose works were in the field of philosophy of science over several decades of the 20th century across as groundbreaking.
Life and work
Joseph Henry Woodger was born in Great Yarmouth in Norfolk and studied 1911-1922 at University College London and then moved to the medical school of the Middlesex Hospital, University of London. In 1947 he became a professor and in 1959 professor emeritus. The philosopher died in 1981.
Karl Popper held Woodger, who was close to the Vienna Circle and significantly contributed to the establishment of the axiomatic method in biology, one of the most influential philosophers of science of his generation.
Works (selection)
- Biological Principles ( 1929). London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner.
- Alfred Tarski: The Axiomatic Method in Biology ( 1937). Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
- The Technique of Theory Construction ( 1939), Chicago.
- Biology and Language ( 1952). Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
- With Ludwig von Bertalanffy: Modern theories of development: an introduction to theoretical biology (1962). New York: Harper.