John Corcoran 1937-2021

[jean-yves beziau]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Corcoran_(logician)

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De : Lynn Corcoran 

Dear Jean-Yves

I write to you with sad news. John passed away on Friday, January 8. 

As I was going through his recent emails, I saw your posting of World Logic Day tomorrow, January 14.  I’m sure you are very busy at the moment, but if it would be possible to announce John’s death, please do so.  

Before he died, John had asked me to notify you and to tell you how much he appreciated your friendship, as well as your enthusiastic and imaginative support of logic. He greatly enjoyed his participation in the conference you organized in Istanbul.  I accompanied him on that trip and it was a wonderful experience for both of us.

John became ill suddenly with a blood infection.  Aggressive antibiotic treatment over the next two weeks was not successful. He entered hospice, where he received the care of extraordinary people.

Until the day he became ill, he was working on new papers and abstracts, supervising new translations of some of his papers into Arabic, Turkish, Spanish and German, and as always, mentoring young scholars via email.  He lived a long and happy life, fully engaged in this world.

In keeping with John’s long-standing wishes, there will be no funeral or memorial service.

Best,

Lynn

[Valeria de Paiva]

que noticia trieste! condolencias a familia e amigos.

Valeria

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[Walter Alexandre Carnielli]

De fato, é uma notícia muito triste e inesperada . Até há bem pouco
tempo Corcoran estava super ativo, escrevendo muito e pedindo apoio,
sempre mencionando seu amigo "Frango na Brasa".
Para quem nao conhece a história, "Frango na Brasa" é um amigo
brasileiro dele que mora nos EUA, um "filósofo de rua". Não sei bem o
que seria...

Me toca especialmente porque eu tive duas fortes "blood
infections", e escapei por 'miracolo da Dio e tutti i santi',
incluindo Ogum e Obaluayê.
W.

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Walter Carnielli, Professor
Centre for Logic, Epistemology and the History of Science and
Department of Philosophy
University of Campinas –UNICAMP
13083-859 Campinas -SP, Brazil
Phone: (+55) (19) 3521-6517
Institutional e-mail: walter.c...@cle.unicamp.br
Website: http://www.cle.unicamp.br/prof/carnielli

[jean-yves beziau]

John Corcoran was a good friend of Alfred Tarski and he prepared a long introduction to the 2nd edition of the collection of Tarski's papers Logic, Semantics and Metamathematics (papers from his time in Poland):

https://www.hackettpublishing.com/logic-semantics-metamathematics

Tarski liked very much this introduction, thinking that Corcoran had been able to connect all his research interests/works.

Thanks to Corcoran we have the posthumous publication of Tarski's famous piece "What are logical notions?".

I recently wrote a paper about this piece:

*The Mystery of the Fifth Logical Notion
(Alice in the Wonderful Land of Logical Notions)"

http://www.jyb-logic.org/ALICE

I was in touch with Corcoran about that and he helped me to improve the paper.

JYB

[Itala Maria Loffredo D'Ottaviano]

Notícia triste!

itala

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Full Professor in Logic and the Foundations of Science

Centre for Logic, Epistemology and the History of Science

University of Campinas

[Tony Marmo]

My geevings to the family.

Em qui, 14 de jan de 2021 11:57, Tony Marmo <marmo...@gmail.com> escreveu:

Difícil receber notícias como essas, estando hospitalizado. Mas, minhas condolências.

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