Charles Parsons (1933-2024)
Charles D. Parsons, professor emeritus of philosophy at Harvard University, has died.
Professor Parsons was known for his work on the philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of logic, Kant, and historical figures in the foundations of mathematics, such as Frege, Hilbert, and Gödel. He is the author of Mathematical Thought and Its Objects (2007), Philosophy of Mathematics in the Twentieth Century: Selected Essays (2013), From Kant to Husserl: Selected Essays (2012), and many other works. You can learn more about his writings here. Parsons also was an editor of The Journal of Philosophy for 25 years.
Parsons earned his AB and PhD from Harvard University and worked for a year at Cornell University before returning to Harvard for a few years. He then joined the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University, where he taught for 20 years. In 1989 he moved back to Harvard.
He died on April 19th, 2024.
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