Nathan Salmon

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Full Name	Nathan Salmon
Occupation	Philosopher
Date Of Birth	Jan 2, 1951(1951-01-02)
Age	73
Birthplace	Los Angeles
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Capricorn

Nathan Salmon Biography

Nathan Salmon is one of the most popular and richest Philosopher who was born on January 2, 1951 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Salmon was born in Los Angeles, January 2, 1951 to a working-class Sephardi Jewish family with Spanish-Turkish heritage. He is the grandson and great- grandson of Emily Sene, nee Emily Perez, and Isaac Sene, oud player. From eighth grade through eighth grade, Salmon attended Lincoln Elementary School, Torrance, California. He was a classmate of James Newton Howard, a child prodigy. Salmon graduated in 1969 from North High School (Torrance).

Salmon also offered a controversial reductio absurdum “disproof” of indeterminate identification, which is the philosophically-popular idea that there is no fact about the matter regarding whether two things are the same. Salmon claims that if there was such a pair of things, called x or y, then the pair would have to differ from the reflexive pair of itself and x, because there is a fact about whether x or x are the exact same. Set theory would show that x, y and z are different. In that case, there would be a fact about whether x or y is the same. There cannot be a pair that is not known about their identities. Salmon, on the other hand, maintains that all vagueness is not due to language. Some indeterminacy results simply from the way things are. Salmon’s claimed proof admits that there is a difference between and -that it is a fact that elements of the latter but not of the first are the same thing -but responds that it doesn’t support the conclusion that they are different.

Salmon argues that natural-language sentences that are representable as λ-converts of one another (in the sense of Church’s lambda-calculus) are, although logically equivalent by λ-conversion, typically not strictly synonymous, i.e., they typically differ in semantic content—as for example “a is large and also a is seaworthy” and “a is a thing that is both large and seaworthy”.

Salmon is currently the University of California Santa Barbara’s Distinguished Professor of Philosophy. He has been teaching at Santa Barbara since 1984. He also taught at UCLA, University of California Riverside, University of Southern California. From 2009 to 2012, he was a regular visiting distinguished faculty at City University of New York Graduate Center.

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Nathan Salmon is one of the richest Philosopher from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Nathan Salmon 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Nathan U. Salmon (/’ s ae-m@n /– ne Nathan Salmon Ucuzoglu, January 2, 1951) was an American philosopher of the analytic tradition. He specializes in metaphysics, philosophy, language philosophy, and philosophy logic.

Salmon was the first in his family to attend college. He graduated from El Camino College (1971), and from University of California, Los Angeles (B.A.). 1973, M.A. 1974, Ph.D. 1979). He studied at UCLA with Tyler Burge and Alonzo Church. From 1978 to 1982, Salmon was Princeton University’s assistant professor of philosophy. The Council of Graduate Schools gave him the Gustave O. Arlt Humanities Award for his book Reference and Essence (1981). It was based upon his UCLA doctoral dissertation. Scott Soames selected Frege’s Puzzle (1986) as one of five best books on philosophy of language for a literary website.

Salmon is also known in metaphysics for, among other things, his analysis of arguments for essentialism—the doctrine that some properties of things are properties that those things could not fail to have (except perhaps by not existing). In particular, Salmon is known for his development and defense of a reductio ad absurdum argument, using a sorites-like problem (slippery slope), against nearly universally accepted modal logic systems S4 and S5, which he argues commit “the fallacy of necessity iteration,” sanctioning the invalid inference from the observation that a proposition p is a necessary truth to the conclusion that it is a necessary truth that p is a necessary truth. He defends his view by exposing a mistake in a standard argument favoring S5, while arguing that there are not only possible worlds—thought of as maximal scenarios that might have obtained—but in addition classically consistent impossible worlds: maximal scenarios that could not obtain.

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