Language in Focus: Foundations, Methods and Systems Essays in Memory
Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (1915-1975) was one of the leading intellectuals of Israel and of the world. His work ranged over mathematics, applied logic, communication theory, analytic philosophy, philosophy of science, and linguistics. Creative, patient, attenti
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SYNTHESE LIBRARY MONOGRAPHS ON EPISTEMOLOGY, LOGIC, METHODOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE AND OF KNOWLEDGE, AND ON THE MATHEMATICAL METHODS OF SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Managing Editor:
J AAKKO
HINTIKKA,
Academy of Finland and Stanford University
Editors: ROBERT S. COHEN, DONALD DAVIDSON,
Boston University
Rockefeller University and Princeton University
GABRIEL NUCHELMANS, WESLEY C. SALMON,
University of Leyden
University of Arizona
VOLUME 89
YEHOSHUA BAR-HILLEL 1915-1975
BOSTON STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE EDITED BY ROBERT S. COHEN AND MARX W. WARTOFSKY
VOLUME XLIII
LANGUAGE IN FOCUS: FOUNDATIONS, METHODS AND SYSTEMS Essays in Memory of Yehoshua Bar-Hillel
Edited by ASA KASHER Tel-A viv University
D. REIDEL PUBLISHING COMPANY DORDRECHT-HOLLAND / BOSTON-U.S.A.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: Language in focus. (Boston studies in the philosophy of science; v. 43)
(Synthese library; v. 89)
Includes bibliographies and index. 1. Language and languages - Addresses, essays, lectures. 2. Languages - Philosophy - Addresses, essays, lectures. 3. Bar-Hillel, Yehoshua. I. Bar-Hillel, Yehoshua. II. Kasher, Asa. III. Series. 75-33775 Q174.B67 vol. 43 [P26] SOls [401] ISBN-I3: 978-90-277-0645-4 DOl: 10.1007/978-94-010-1876-0
e-ISBN-13: 978-94-010-1876-0
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PREFACE
Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (1915-1975) was one of the leading intellectuals of Israel and of the world. His work ranged over mathematics, applied logic, communication theory, analytic philosophy, philosophy of science, and linguistics. Creative, patient, attentive, and critical, Bar-Hillel was a superb philosopher. In addition, how humane he was may be learned from the memorial tributes to him which initiate this volume. Bar-Hillel was born in Vienna, and came to Israel, then Palestine, in 1933. He took his M.A. (1938) and Ph. D. (1949) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where his subsequent career continued, as Research Fellow (1949-53), Senior Lecturer in Philosophy (1953-58), Associate Professor of Philosophy (1958-61), and Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science (1961-75). He was often abroad as visiting professor (Berkeley, 196061; Michigan, 1965; La Jolla, 1966-67; Konstanz, 1971; Berlin, 1972), or as a research scholar, notably at the M.lT. Research
