Ruth Manor

Ruth (Ruru) Manor (Hebrew: מנור, רות, née Wolman, 1944–2005) was an Israeli philosopher and logician.

Life

Manor was born in 1944[1] 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;[2] their joint work, published in 1970,[RM] produced the Rescher–Manor mechanism for deriving consequences from consistent subsets of inconsistent assumptions.[2] 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.[3]

Manor taught in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Virginia Tech in 1973 and 1974.[4] 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,[2] where she was tenured in 1986, promoted to full professor in 1988,[1] and eventually became head of the department. In 1993, she took a position at Tel Aviv University,[2] while continuing to hold her affiliation at San Jose State University, from which she retired in 2004.[1]

Late in her life she published a book on the philosophy of health care with her father.[1][5][WM] She died in 2005.[1][2]

Recognition

After a conference in her memory at Tel Aviv University, a festschrift was published, entitled Hues of Philosophy.[6]

Selected publications

RM.
Rescher, Nicholas; Manor, Ruth (December 1970), "On inference from inconsistent premisses", Theory and Decision, 1 (2): 179–217, doi:10.1007/bf00154005
WM.
Wolman, Moshe; Manor, Ruth (2004), Doctors' Errors and Mistakes of Medicine: Must Health Care Deteriorate?, Biomedical and health research, vol. 59, IOS Press, ISBN 978-1-58603-403-0[5]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Philosophy faculty and staff: In memoriam, San Jose State University, retrieved 2024-08-26; "Obituary: Ruth Manor", Newsletter: Department of Philosophy, San Jose State University, October 2006, retrieved 2024-08-26
  2. ^ a b c d e Dromi, Uri (24 November 2005), "'A major talent' in philosophy", Haaretz, archived from the original on 2017-08-29
  3. ^ Ruth Manor at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ "Mrs. Ruth Manor – Philosophy and Religion , 1973 – 1974", Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, retrieved 2024-08-26
  5. ^ a b Reviews of Doctors' Errors and Mistakes of Medicine:
  6. ^ Biletzki, Anat, ed. (2010), Hues of Philosophy: Essays in Memory of Ruth Manor, College Publications