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Name
  
Charles Parsons

Role
  
Philosopher

Parents
  
Talcott Parsons


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Grandparents
  
Mary Augusta Ingersoll, Edward Smith Parsons

Uncles
  
Edward S. Parsons, Jr., Charles Edwards Parsons

Aunts
  
Esther Parsons, Elizabeth I. Parsons

Education
  
Harvard University (1961), Harvard University (1954)

Books
  
Philosophy of Mathemat, Mathematical Thought and Its O, From Kant to Husserl: Selected, Mathematics in Philosop, On Constructive Interpreta

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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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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.

Books

  • 1983. Mathematics in Philosophy: Selected Essays. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press.
  • 2008. Mathematical Thought and its Objects. Cambridge Univ. Press.
  • 2012. From Kant to Husserl: Selected Essays. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard Univ. Press.
  • 2014a. Philosophy of Mathematics in the Twentieth Century: Selected Essays. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard Univ. Press.
  • A selection of articles

  • 1987. "Developing arithmetic in set theory without infinity: Some historical remarks". History and Philosophy of Logic, vol. 8, pp. 201–213.
  • 1990a. "The uniqueness of the natural numbers". Iyyun, vol. 39, pp. 13–44. ISSN 0021-3306 (2 p.).
  • 1990b. "The structuralist view of mathematical objects. Synthese, vol. 84 (3), pp. 303–346.
  • 2014b. "Analyticity for realists". In Interpreting Gödel: Critical Essays, ed. J. Kennedy. Cambridge University Press, pp. 131–150.
  • References

    Charles Parsons (philosopher) Wikipedia