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Ruth Barcan Marcus was born on 2 August, 1921 in New York City, is an American philosopher. Discover Ruth Barcan Marcus's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 90 years old?

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Born 2 August 1921
Birthday 2 August
Birthplace New York City
Date of death 19 February, 2012
Died Place New Haven, Connecticut
Nationality United States

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1921

Ruth Barcan Marcus (born Ruth Charlotte Barcan; 2 August 1921 – 19 February 2012 ) was an American academic philosopher and logician best known for her work in modal and philosophical logic.

She developed the first formal systems of quantified modal logic and in so doing introduced the schema or principle known as the Barcan formula.

(She would also introduce the now standard "box" operator for necessity in the process.) Marcus, who originally published as Ruth C. Barcan, was, as Don Garrett notes "one of the twentieth century's most important and influential philosopher-logicians".

1942

Ruth Barcan (as she was known before marrying the physicist Jules Alexander Marcus in 1942 ) graduated magna cum laude from New York University in 1941, majoring in mathematics and philosophy.

She then went to graduate school at Yale, obtaining her M.A. in 1942 and her PhD in 1946.

1946

It features these three articles: "A Functional Calculus of First Order Based on Strict Implication", Journal of Symbolic Logic (JSL, 1946), "The Deduction Theorem in a Functional Calculus of First Order Based on Strict Implication" (JSL, 1946), and "The Identity of Individuals in a Strict Functional Calculus of Second Order", (JSL, 1947).

The first systems of quantified modal logic, which extended some propositional modal systems of Clarence Irving Lewis to first and second order; the papers of 1946 and 1947, were a major accomplishment in the development of 20th century logic.

Marcus formally proved the necessity of identity in 1946 and informally argued for it in 1961, thereafter thus rejecting the possibility of contingent identity.

1947

See Journal of Symbolic Logic, (1947) 12: pp 12–15

Marcus prefers an interpretation where the domain of the interpretation comprises individual entities in the actual world.

She also suggests that for some uses an alternative substitutional semantics is warranted.

She provides arguments against possibilia.

1950

Marcus was a visiting professor at Northwestern University from 1950 until 1953 and, again, in 1959.

1951

Lewis gives Marcus special recognition in his "Notes on the Logic of Intension", originally printed in Structure, Method, and Meaning: Essays in Honor of Henry M. Sheffer (New York, 1951).

Here Lewis recognizes Barcan Marcus as the first logician to extend propositional logic as a higher order intensional logic.

1956

She served as assistant, and then as associate, professor at the newly founded Roosevelt University, Chicago, between 1956 and 1963.

1961

Marcus proposed the view in the philosophy of language according to which proper names are what Marcus termed mere "tags" ("Modalities and Intensional Languages" (Synthese, 1961) and elsewhere).

According to her tag theory of names (a direct reference theory), these "tags" are used to refer to an object, which is the bearer of the name.

The meaning of the name is regarded as exhausted by this referential function.

This view contrasts for example with Bertrand Russell's description theory of proper names as well as John Searle's cluster description theory of names which prevailed at the time.

1962

This view of proper names (presented in 1962 with Willard Van Orman Quine as commentator) has been identified by Quentin Smith with the theory of reference given in Saul Kripke's Naming and Necessity.

However, in a recent laudatio to Ruth Barcan Marcus, Professor Timothy Williamson says:

"One of the ideas in them that resonates most with current philosophy of language is that of proper names as mere tags, without descriptive content. This is not Kripke's idea of names as rigid designators, designating the same object with respect to all relevant worlds, for 'rigidified' definite descriptions are rigid designators but still have descriptive content. Rather, it is the idea, later developed by David Kaplan and others, that proper names are directly referential, in the sense that they contribute only their bearer to the propositions expressed by sentences in which they occur."

The philosopher of language Stephen Neale has also argued against Professor Smith's claim in the Times Literary Supplement.

1964

From 1964 to 1970, she was a professor of philosophy at the University of Illinois Chicago (originally serving as a head of department).

1970

She was professor of philosophy at Northwestern University from 1970 until 1973, when she was appointed as the Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Philosophy at Yale University until retiring, as a professor emerita, in 1992.

1975

See "Dispensing with Possibilia" (Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association, 1975–76); "Possibilia and Possible Worlds" (Grazer Philosophische Studien, 1985–86).

Marcus defines a consistent set of moral principles as one in which there is some "possible world" in which they are all obeyable.

That they may conflict in the actual world is not a mark of inconsistency.

As in the case of necessity of identity, there was a resistance to this interpretation of moral conflict.

Her argument counts against a widely received view that systems of moral rules are inevitably inconsistent.

It is proposed that believing is a relationship of an agent to a possible state of affairs under specified internal and external circumstances.

Assenting to a quoted sentence (the disquotation account of belief) is only one behavioral marker of believing.

Betting behavior is another.

The wholly language-centered account of belief (e.g. Davidson) is rejected.

1976

Amongst other professional offices held during her career, Marcus served as chair of the board of officers for the American Philosophical Association (1976–83) and as president of both the Association for Symbolic Logic (1983–86) and then of the (1989–92).

The widely discussed Barcan formula is introduced as an axiom in QML.

In her earliest published work, the publication of the first axiomatic study of modal logic with quantifiers, Marcus published under her maiden name Ruth C. Barcan.

1997

She continued to teach, during winter semesters, at the University of California, Irvine until 1997.

2008

Timothy Williamson, in a 2008 celebration of Marcus' long career, states that many of her "main ideas are not just original, and clever, and beautiful, and fascinating, and influential, and way ahead of their time, but actually – I believe – true".