James Garson

{{short description|American philosopher and logician}}

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{{Infobox philosopher

|region = Western philosophy

|era = Contemporary philosophy

|school_tradition = Analytic

|main_interests = Logic, modal logic, philosophy of mind, neural networks, formal semantics, linguistics, cognitive science, education

|known_for = Modal Logic for Philosophers

}}

James Garson is an American philosopher and logician. He has made significant contributions in the study of modal logic{{Cite book|chapter-url=http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-modal/|title = The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy|chapter = Modal Logic|year = 2021|publisher = Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University}} and formal semantics. He is author of Modal Logic for Philosophers{{cite journal | last= Humberstone | first=Lloyd | title=Reviewed Work: Modal Logic for Philosophers. Second Edition James W. Garson | journal=Studia Logica| publisher=Springer | volume=104 | issue=2 | year=2016 | issn=0039-3215 | jstor=24754808 | pages=365–379 | url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/24754808 | access-date=2025-01-11}} and What Logics Mean by Cambridge University Press.{{cite web| url = http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item1163165/?site_locale=en_GB| title = Modal logic philosophers 2nd edition {{!}} Logic {{!}} Cambridge University Press}} Garson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Houston and has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Illinois at Chicago (where he was a visiting professor in computer science), and Rice University.{{Cite web |url=http://www.class.uh.edu/phil/garson/vita.htm |title=Vita |access-date=2011-01-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100807143846/http://www.class.uh.edu/phil/garson/vita.htm |archive-date=2010-08-07 |url-status=dead }}