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Charles Dacre Parsons (born April 13, 1933) is an American philosopher best known for his work in the philosophy of mathematics and the study of the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. He is professor emeritus at Harvard University.
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- Charles parsons intuition and reason husserl to godel richard tieszen
- Charles parsons intuition and reason frege stewart shapiro
- Biography and career
- Philosophical work
- Books
- A selection of articles
- References
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Biography and career
Parsons is a son of the famous Harvard sociologist Talcott Parsons. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at Harvard University in 1961, under the direction of Burton Dreben and Willard Van Orman Quine. He taught for many years at Columbia University before moving to Harvard University in 1989. He retired in 2005 as the Edgar Pierce professor of philosophy, a position formerly held by Quine.
He is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
Among his former doctoral students are James Higginbotham, R. Gregory Taylor, Peter Ludlow, Richard Tieszen, Gila Sher, Steven Mandelker, Charles H. Manekin, Emily Carson, Michael Glanzberg, and Øystein Linnebo.
Philosophical work
In addition to his work in logic and the philosophy of mathematics, Parsons was an editor, with Solomon Feferman and others, of the posthumous works of Kurt Gödel. He has also written on historical figures, especially Immanuel Kant, Gottlob Frege, Kurt Gödel, and Willard van Orman Quine.