Rolf Schock
Rolf Schock ( born April 5, 1933, Cap d' Ail, † December 5, 1986 in Berlin) was a Swedish / American philosopher and logician. From his estate assigns a Foundation since 1993 the prestigious Rolf Schock Prize in four disciplines.
Career
Rolf Guenther Gustav shock was the son of the German family Adolf Gustav shock and his wife Caroline Pauline (nee Luce ) who screwed up in 1931 and emigrated to France later on Lisbon in the United States. Rolf became an American citizen and called himself Roy Gunther shock. He attended schools in New York and New Jersey and studied geology, mathematics and philosophy at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, 1955, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA ) from.
A post -graduate studies in philosophy, he graduated from the University of California, first at Donald Kalish and Rudolf Carnap in Berkeley, then in Los Angeles. There he devoted himself mainly to the ideas of philosopher Richard Montague, whose logical question and its utility for the philosophy employed him his life.
Work
In 1960 he moved shock to Sweden, where he continued his studies at Stockholm University and where he in 1964, the Master's Degree (Swedish: Fil lic. ) Acquired. He received his doctorate at the University of Uppsala on a subject to non classical logic ( logic outdoor ) 1968. He was then for a short time assistant professor and held in Uppsala in Stockholm as lectures before the Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm ( Kungliga Tekniska högskolan KTH ) served as a base for his work as a private tutor him. In addition, studied at Konstfack in Stockholm, an art college for art, craft and design and became a passionate painter and photographer. In 1979 he had an exhibition of his paintings in a gallery in Stockholm.
Shock published writings on logic and philosophy of science, including several books and a large number of articles in international journals. Little support he found in his attempt to refute the theory of relativity by Albert Einstein on logical grounds.
In the fall of 1986 shock held in the Soviet Union a lecture about free logic, based on his dissertation. He died in late 1986 in the repair of his Land Rover in Berlin. He left a handsome fortune he had inherited the mid-1960s from his father and determined half for the promotion of art and science. The Rolf Schock Foundation grants - based on the Nobel Prize - in 1993 prices into four categories: logic, philosophy, mathematics, visual arts and music. The winners will be selected each by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ( 2), the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
Writings
- Logic, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1967
- Logics without existence assumptions, Almqvist & Wiksell 1968
- New foundations for concept theory, Issue 12 of Library of theoria, Gleerup, 1969
- Quasi - connectives definable concept in theory, Issue 13 of Library of theoria, Gleerup, 1971