James Garson

James Garson
Known for	Modal Logic for Philosophers
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic
Main interests	Logic, modal logic, philosophy of mind, neural networks, formal semantics, linguistics, cognitive science, education

James Garson is an American philosopher and logician. He has made significant contributions in the study of modal logic[1] and formal semantics. He is author of Modal Logic for Philosophers[2] and What Logics Mean by Cambridge University Press.[3] 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.[4]

References

1. "Modal Logic". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. 2021.
2. Humberstone, Lloyd (2016). "Reviewed Work: Modal Logic for Philosophers. Second Edition James W. Garson". Studia Logica: An International Journal for Symbolic Logic. 104 (2). Springer: 365–379. ISSN 0039-3215. JSTOR 24754808. Retrieved 2025-01-11.
3. "Modal logic philosophers 2nd edition | Logic | Cambridge University Press".
4. "Vita". Archived from the original on 2010-08-07. Retrieved 2011-01-28.