Max Black
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Max Black (24 February 1909 – 27 August 1988) was a British-American philosopher, who was a leading figure in analytic philosophy in the years after World War II.
He made contributions to the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mathematics and science, and the philosophy of art, also publishing studies of the work of philosophers such as Frege.
His translation (with Peter Geach) of Frege's published philosophical writing is a classic text.
Life and career
Black, a descendant of Jewish descent, grew up in London, where his family had migrated in 1912.
He studied mathematics at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he developed an interest in mathematical philosophy. Russell, Wittgenstein, G. E. Moore, and Ramsey were all students at Cambridge at the time, and their presence on Black may have been significant. He graduated in 1930 and was given a grant to study at Göttingen for a year.
He was mathematics teacher at Newcastle's Royal Grammar School from 1931 to 1936.
The Nature of Mathematics (1933), his first book, an exposition of Principia Mathematica and of recent research in mathematics, was published.
Black made important contributions to identity metaphysics. Black's book "The Identity of Indiscernibles" raises an objection to Leibniz' Law by describing two distinct spheres with the same characteristics, effectively contradicting Leibniz' second statement in his introduction of "The Identity of Indiscernibles." Despite the fact that there are two objects with similar names, the existence of two objects in a void also denies their similarity.
From 1936 to 1940, he taught mathematics at the Institute of Education in London. In 1940, he moved to the United States and joined the University of Illinois' Philosophy Department at Urbana–Champaign. He accepted a professorship in philosophy at Cornell University in 1946. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1948. William H. Gass' philosophy dissertation was consulted by Black. In 1963, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. At the age of 79, Black died in Ithaca, New York. Sir Misha Black, his younger brother, was an engineer.