Georg Henrik von Wrigt ( Ger . Georg Henrik von Wright ; June 14, 1916 , Helsingfors , Grand Duchy of Finland - June 16, 2003 , Helsinki , Finland ) is a Finnish philosopher and logician. The representative of analytical philosophy . In 1968–1970 - President of the Academy of Finland .
| Georg Henrik von Wrigt | |
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| Georg Henrik von Wright | |
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| Date of Birth | June 14, 1916 |
| Place of Birth | Helsingfors , VKF |
| Date of death | June 16, 2003 (87 years old) |
| Place of death | Helsinki , Finland |
| A country |  Finland |
| Alma mater | |
| School / Tradition | analytical philosophy |
| Direction | logics |
| Period | XX century philosophers |
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Biography
He graduated from the University of Helsinki (1937) and the University of Cambridge (1939) [1] . Since 1943 - Associate Professor at the University of Helsinki, and since 1946 - Professor. Doctoral thesis "The logical problems of induction" (1941).
In 1948 he was invited to Cambridge , where he worked under the leadership of Ludwig Wittgenstein , he became his successor in the post at the Department of Philosophy [1] . Since 1951, again in Finland, an honorary professor at the University of Helsinki. In 1965-1977 he was a professor at Cornell University (USA) [1] .
Full member of the Academy of Finland (1961), in 1968-1970, its president and president of the Finnish Scientific Society. In 1975–78, President of the International Institute of Philosophy.
He taught at universities in the US and Europe, a member of many academies and scientific societies, an honorary doctor of many universities around the world. Corresponding Member of the British Academy (1961) [2] .
In 1986 he received the Alexander Humboldt Prize and the highest prize of the Swedish Academy, in 1993 he received the Selma Lagerlöf Literary Prize, and in 1998 the Tara Danielson Prize.
Author of numerous scientific works on philosophy and logic, articles and essays on science and culture.
His philosophical views were influenced by Moore, C.D. Broad, and the Finnish philosopher E. Kyle, but the influence of L. Wittgenstein was especially strong. Vrigt is one of the most significant representatives of the analytical philosophy of the 20th century. He was closely associated with the Vienna Circle . His research interests are concentrated mainly in the field of philosophy of science, epistemology and non-classical logic. He investigated the problems of time and change, causality, determinism and probability, analyzed ways of formalizing deductive reasoning in various fields of human activity and the problem of induction. The logical works of Vrigt contain ideas that initiated a number of new sections of modern logical science that have significant philosophical and applied interest. These include Deontic Logic, Relevant Logic, Temporal Logic, Action Logic, Rating and Preference Logic, Change Logic, and Truth Logic. Wright is the author of research on analytical and applied logic, essays on literature and writers, including Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, popular books on philosophy and scientific knowledge, articles defending humanistic ideas in Western culture and modern society.
He died in Helsinki on June 16, 2003 . He was buried at Inkoo Cemetery [3] .
Major Works
- 1986 - Logical and Philosophical Studies. Selected Works. (Translator: E.I. Tarusina, A.S. Karpenko, and others. (Genre: Analytical Philosophy of the 20th Century) Publisher: Progress , Moscow Language: Russian Number of pages: 593 (+1 region)
- ( http://royallib.ru/book/fon_vrigt_georg_henrik/logiko_filosofskie_issledovaniya_izbrannie_trudi.html )
- 2000 - Three Thinkers.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Vrigt Georg Henrik von / Smirnov V. А. // The Eightfold Path - Germans. - M .: The Great Russian Encyclopedia, 2006. - P. 30-31. - (The Great Russian Encyclopedia : [in 35 t.] / Ch. Ed. Yu. S. Osipov ; 2004–2017, Vol. 6). - ISBN 5-85270-335-4 .
- ↑ Deceased Fellows - British Academy Archival copy of September 23, 2015 on Wayback Machine
- ↑ Här vilar kända finländare (fin.)
Literature
- Segerberg K. Von Wrigg’s Time Logic // Logical Inference. M., 1979
- Logical and philosophical studies. Selected Works. M., 1986.
- Philosophy of GH von Wright / Ed. by PA Schilpp. Open Court., 1989.
- Logical Studies. L., 1957.
- Norm and Action. L., 1963.
- Explanation and Understanding. NY, 1971.
- Causality and Determinism. NY, 1974.
- Wittgenstein. Oxford, 1982.