Richard Cartwright (philosopher)
{{short description|American philosopher of language}}
{{Infobox philosopher
| region = Western philosophy
| era = Contemporary philosophy
| name = Richard Cartwright
| birth_name = Richard Lee Cartwright
| birth_date = 1925
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| death_date = 2010
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| school_tradition = Analytic
| main_interests = Philosophy of language
| institutions = University of Michigan
Wayne State University
MIT
| thesis_title = Logical Constructions
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| thesis_year = 1954
| doctoral_advisor = Curt John Ducasse
Roderick Chisholm
| notable_advisors =
| doctoral_students = Richard Boyd
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| notable_ideas = All-in-one principle (the objects in any domain of discourse form a set)Richard L. Cartwright, "Speaking of Everything", Noûs 28(1) (Mar., 1994), pp. 1–20.
| education = Oberlin College (B.A., 1945)
Brown University (Ph.D., 1954)
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}}
Richard Lee Cartwright (1925–2010) was an American philosopher of language and emeritus professor of philosophy at MIT.
Education and career
Cartwright took his B.A. from Oberlin College in 1945, and his Ph.D. from Brown University in 1954[https://web.mit.edu/philosophy/cartwright.html "MIT philosophy: Richard Cartwright, 1925-2010"] under Curt John Ducasse and Roderick Chisholm.John R. Shook (ed.), Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2005, p. 444. He taught at the University of Michigan and then at Wayne State University. In 1967, he moved to MIT, where he was appointed to strengthen the new graduate philosophy program, and where he continued to teach until his retirement in 1996. Cartwright served twice as head of philosophy at MIT, and also as head of the humanities department. He was the doctoral advisor of 12 doctoral students at MIT, including Richard Boyd.[https://web.mit.edu/philosophy/dissertations.html "MIT philosophy dissertations"]
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Category:20th-century American philosophers
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