C. I. Lewis
American philosopher
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Clarence Irving Lewis, usually cited as C. I. Lewis, was an American academic philosopher. He is considered the progenitor of modern modal logic and the founder of conceptual pragmatism. First a noted logician, he later branched into epistemology,... Wikipedia
Born: April 12, 1883, Stoneham, MA
Died: February 3, 1964 (age 80 years), Menlo Park, CA
Influenced by: Charles Sanders Peirce, Immanuel Kant, and Josiah Royce
Doctoral students: Brand Blanshard, Nelson Goodman, Roderick Chisholm
Education: Harvard University (BA, PhD)
School: Conceptual pragmatism; Analytic philosophy; Epistemic coherentism
