Ruth Manor
{{Short description|Israeli philosopher}}
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Ruth (Ruru) Manor ({{langx|he|רות מנור}}; née Wolman, 1944–2005) was an Israeli philosopher and logician.
Life
Manor was born in 1944{{r|sjsu}} in Addis Ababa, where her father, Moshe Wolman, was the physician to Haile Selassie. After the family returned to Israel, she grew up in Jerusalem, and moved as a teenager to Tel Aviv. She did her undergraduate studies in mathematics and philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Next, she studied for a master's degree at the University of Pittsburgh with logician Nicholas Rescher;{{r|haaretz}} their joint work, published in 1970,{{ran|RM}} produced the Rescher–Manor mechanism for deriving consequences from consistent subsets of inconsistent assumptions.{{r|haaretz}} Continuing at the University of Pittsburgh, she completed a Ph.D. in 1971, with the dissertation Conditional forms: assertion, necessity, obligation and commands supervised by Nuel Belnap.{{r|mg}}
Manor taught in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Virginia Tech in 1973 and 1974.{{r|vatech}} She returned to Israel, but was unsuccessful at obtaining an academic position there. Instead, she joined the philosophy department at San Jose State University in California,{{r|haaretz}} where she was tenured in 1986, promoted to full professor in 1988,{{r|sjsu}} and eventually became head of the department. In 1993, she took a position at Tel Aviv University,{{r|haaretz}} while continuing to hold her affiliation at San Jose State University, from which she retired in 2004.{{r|sjsu}}
Late in her life she published a book on the philosophy of health care with her father.{{r|sjsu|demm}}{{ran|WM}} She died in 2005.{{r|sjsu|haaretz}}
Recognition
After a conference in her memory at Tel Aviv University, a festschrift was published, entitled Hues of Philosophy.{{r|hues}}
Selected publications
{{rma|RM|{{citation
| last1 = Rescher | first1 = Nicholas
| last2 = Manor | first2 = Ruth
| date = December 1970
| doi = 10.1007/bf00154005
| issue = 2
| journal = Theory and Decision
| pages = 179–217
| title = On inference from inconsistent premisses
| volume = 1}}}}
{{rma|WM|{{citation
| last1 = Wolman | first1 = Moshe | author1-link = Moshe Wolman
| last2 = Manor | first2 = Ruth
| isbn = 978-1-58603-403-0
| publisher = IOS Press
| series = Biomedical and health research
| title = Doctors' Errors and Mistakes of Medicine: Must Health Care Deteriorate?
| volume = 59
| year = 2004}}{{r|demm}}}}
References
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Reviews of Doctors' Errors and Mistakes of Medicine:
- Alfredo Margreth, Belfagor, {{jstor|26150254}}
- D. Nachson, Medicine and Law[https://heinonline.org/hol-cgi-bin/get_pdf.cgi?handle=hein.journals/mlv23§ion=90]
- Neville W. Goodman, BMJ, {{PMC|443505}}, {{jstor|25458151}}
{{citation|url=https://www.haaretz.com/2005-11-24/ty-article/a-major-talent-in-philosophy/0000017f-db67-db5a-a57f-db6fc4ab0000|date=24 November 2005|first=Uri|last=Dromi|newspaper=Haaretz|title='A major talent' in philosophy|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170829124554/http://www.haaretz.com/a-major-talent-in-philosophy-1.175048|archive-date=2017-08-29}}
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Category:People from Addis Ababa
Category:Israeli women philosophers
Category:Philosophers of logic
Category:Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
Category:University of Pittsburgh alumni
Category:Virginia Tech faculty