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PHILOSOPHER

Ruth Barcan Marcus

1921 - 2012

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Ruth Barcan Marcus (; born Ruth Charlotte Barcan; 2 August 1921 – 19 February 2012) was an American academic philosopher and logician best known for her work in modal and philosophical logic. She developed the first formal systems of quantified modal logic and in so doing introduced the schema or principle known as the Barcan formula. (She would also introduce the now standard "box" operator for necessity in the process.) Marcus, who originally published as Ruth C. Barcan, was, as Don Garrett notes "one of the twentieth century's most important and influential philosopher-logicians". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ruth Barcan Marcus has received more than 116,947 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Ruth Barcan Marcus is the 1,112th most popular philosopher, the 8,112th most popular biography from United States and the 67th most popular American Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Ruth Barcan Marcus ranks 1,112 out of 1,081Before her are Stanley Jaki, Max Black, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Vicente Ferreira da Silva, Edward Abramowski, and Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati. After her are Volker Zotz, Ryan White, Mary Whiton Calkins, William Ames, Alexander Berzin, and Nick Bostrom.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Ruth Barcan Marcus ranks 344Before her are Daniel Oduber Quirós, Richard Wilbur, Stan Mortensen, Lloyd Bentsen, Cyrille Adoula, and Petter Hugsted. After her are Mohammad Mohammadullah, Michel Bonnevie, Jesse Helms, Big Walter Horton, Farley Mowat, and Peggy Rea. Among people deceased in 2012, Ruth Barcan Marcus ranks 337Before her are Paul Shan Kuo-hsi, Jorge Illueca, Patricia Medina, Valeri Vasiliev, Clive Dunn, and Viktor Kosichkin. After her are Tibor Csernai, Bill Moggridge, Ralph McQuarrie, Corrie Sanders, Heino Kruus, and Margaret Osborne duPont.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ruth Barcan Marcus ranks 8,112 out of 18,182Before her are Michael Shermer (1954), Jaime Pressly (1977), William C. McCool (1961), Tom DeLonge (1975), Daryl Stuermer (1952), and Bruce M. Metzger (1914). After her are George Ariyoshi (1926), Michael Badalucco (1954), Horace Grant (1965), Jonathan Safran Foer (1977), Joe Bonamassa (1977), and William Ellery Channing (1780).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Ruth Barcan Marcus ranks 67Before her are Paul Kurtz (1925), William Chittick (1943), James Burnham (1905), William Alston (1921), Michael Hardt (1960), and Judith Jarvis Thomson (1929). After her are Ryan White (1971), Mary Whiton Calkins (1863), Alexander Berzin (1944), R. C. Sproul (1939), Charles Hartshorne (1897), and Patricia Hill Collins (1948).