Background
Wehmeier, Kai Frederick was born on March 15, 1968 in Summit, New Jersey, United States. Son of Friedel Heinrich Gustav Paul and Marlis Wehmeier.
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Kai Frederick Wehmeier
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Education
Master of Arts, University California, Berkeley, California, 1992. Degree, Westfälische Wilhelms University, Münster, Germany, 1996. Master of Arts, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, Germany, 1999.
Career
Wehmeier is currently a professor in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science and the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. He is also the director of University of California Irvine"s Center for the Advancement of Logic, its Philosophy, History, and Applications (C-ALPHA).
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He is best known for the proof that the fragment of Frege"s inconsistent logical theory of Grundgesetze der Arithmetik becomes consistent upon restricting the complexity of comprehension formulas in the second-order comprehension schema to Foreign his development of a system of subjunctive modal logic and its use in rebutting Kripke"s modal argument against description theories of proper names. As well as for refining and defending the thesis that there is no binary identity relation between objects.
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Married Elisabeth Giehl, August 5, 2002. Married Katja Ramberg, June 5, 1992 (divorced July 24, 2002). 1 child Anna Sara Marie.
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1992
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