Richard Cartwright (philosopher)

Short description: American philosopher of language

Richard Cartwright

Born|

Richard Lee Cartwright

1925
Died| 2010
Education| Oberlin College (B.A., 1945)
Brown University (Ph.D., 1954)
Spouse(s)| Helen Morris[1]
Era| Contemporary philosophy
Region| Western philosophy
School| Analytic
Institutions| University of Michigan
Wayne State University
MIT
Thesis| Logical Constructions (1954)
Doctoral advisor| Curt John Ducasse[2]
Roderick Chisholm[2]
Doctoral students| Richard Boyd[3]

Main interests

| Philosophy of language

Notable ideas

| All-in-one principle (the objects in any domain of discourse form a set)[4]

Richard Lee Cartwright (1925–2010) was an American philosopher of language and emeritus professor of philosophy at MIT.

## Education and career

Cartwright took his B.A. from Oberlin College in 1945, and his Ph.D. from Brown University in 1954[1] under Curt John Ducasse and Roderick Chisholm.[2] He taught at the University of Michigan and then at Wayne State University. In 1967 he moved to MIT, where he was appointed to strengthen the new graduate philosophy program, and where he continued to teach until his retirement in 1996.[1] Cartwright served twice as head of philosophy at MIT, and also as head of the humanities department.[1] He was the doctoral advisor of 12 doctoral students at MIT, including Richard Boyd.[3]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "MIT philosophy: Richard Cartwright, 1925-2010"
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 John R. Shook (ed.), Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2005, p. 444.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "MIT philosophy dissertations"
4. ↑ Richard L. Cartwright, "Speaking of Everything", Noûs 28(1) (Mar., 1994), pp. 1–20.

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