Background
KORNER, Stephan was born on September 26, 1913 in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia. Son of Emil Komer and Ema Maier Korner.
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First published in 1976, this is a comprehensive study of practical thinking. Professor Körner shows the complex relations which a person's practical attitudes bear to each other, and shows in particular how their moral or prudential character depends not only on their content and form but also on their place in the system constituted by them. There are detailed accounts of the concepts of morality, prudence, justice, welfare and legality, as well as the logical foundations, epistemology and metaphysics of practical thinking. The book is intended for philosophers and for those political theorists and social scientists who are concerned with the philosophical presuppositions and implications of their enquiries. The book is deliberately organized so that those with less interest in the logical issues dealt with in Part I can proceed quickly and easily to the more substantive issues in Parts II and III.
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Lucid and comprehensive essay surveys the views of Plato, Aristotle, Leibniz and Kant on the nature of mathematics; examines the propositions and theories of the schools these philosophers inspired; and concludes with a discussion on the relation between mathematical theories, empirical data and philosophical presuppositions.
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Concise, accessible sketches of the views of Plato, Aristotle, Leibniz, and Kant highlight this study of the general structure and foundation of pure and applied mathematics. Author Stephan Körner dedicates two chapters apiece — one expository and one critical — to each of the three main modern schools of thought on mathematical philosophy: the formalists, the logicists, and the intuitionists. After critically examining the propositions and theories of each philosophy, Körner presents a new position concerning the relation between mathematical theories, empirical data, and philosophical presuppositions. The Review of Metaphysics praised this volume as "a lucid and stimulating essay which combines accuracy and sophistication with a minimum of technical language." Compact but comprehensive, this nontechnical introduction will appeal to professionals, students, and other readers interested in the intersection of philosophical problems with pure and applied mathematics.
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KORNER, Stephan was born on September 26, 1913 in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia. Son of Emil Komer and Ema Maier Korner.
JurD, Charles University, Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1939. Doctor of Philosophy, Cambridge (England) University, 1944. Doctor of Literature (honorary), Queen's University, Belfast, Ireland, 1981.
Doctor of Literature (honorary), Karl-Franzens University, Graz, Austria, 1984.
Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Bristol 1946-1952, Professor 1952-1979, Dean, Faculty of Arts 1965-1966. Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Bristol 1968-1971. Professor Yale University 1970-1983.
Visiting Professor, of Philosophy, Brown University 1957, Yale University 1960, Texas University 1964, Indiana University 1967, Graz University 1980-1984. President British Society for Philosophy of Science 1965, Aristotelian Society 1967, Institute Union of History and Philosophy of Science (Division of Logic, Methodology and Phil, of Science) 1969-1971, Mind Association 1973. Fellow of British Academy 1967.
Fellow, Bristol University 1986.
( Lucid and comprehensive essay surveys the views of Plat...)
( Concise, accessible sketches of the views of Plato, Ari...)
(First published in 1976, this is a comprehensive study of...)
Author: The Philosophy of Mathematics, 1960, Experience and Theory, 1966, Experience and Conduct, 1976, Metaphysics, 1984, also others.
Korner notes in his Preface to Metaphysics: Its Structure and Function (1984) that the book represents a culmination of his thinking over forty years. His view of the scope and nature of philosophy is Kantian. He believes in the possibility of an analysis of a conceptual apparatus through which human experience and action is classified.
‘A person’s immanent metaphysics', he has written, ‘comprises the principles to which every proposition about the public world must conform if it is to be acceptable.' This is contrasted with ‘transcendent metaphysics’—‘speculative conjectures about the relation between the—private or public—world of experience and the world in itself or transcendent reality’. He differs radically from Kant in his attention to conceptual development in the histories of both philosophy and science, but appears to share with him a belief that valid generalizations across human societies can be made about cognitive organization and about practical attitudes.
Korner’s notion of a ‘categorial framework’, he says, consists of ‘the supreme principles governing my thinking about what I take to be the world of intersubjective experience’. His interest in categorial frameworks led him to some acute studies of the nature of philosophy which have been less doctrinaire than those of more narrowly analytical writers.
He has brought a formidable technical expertise to this task. His treatments of ordinary language philosophy ol the 1950s were brisk and decisive. Korner has a lasting reputation as a teacher and expositor.
After many years, his Kant (1955), What ¡s Philosophy? (1969) and The Philosophy of Mathematics (1960) all remain almost unchallenged as standard introductions. His philosophical reputation, like his interests, is wider and more international than an orthodox Oxford-Cambridge British mainstream.
Lieutenant Czechoslovakian Cavalry and Infantry, 1936-1939, 43-46.
Metaphysics: metaphilosophy: history of philosophy. Practical reasoning.
Kant.
Married Edith Laner, January 8, 1944. Children: Thomas William, Ann Margaret.