William Kneale, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

William Kneale

English logician

Date of Birth: 22-Jun-1906

Place of Birth: Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 24-Jun-1990

Profession: university teacher, philosopher

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

William Calvert Kneale (22 June 1906 – 24 June 1990) was an English logician best known for his 1962 book The Development of Logic, a history of logic from its beginnings in Ancient Greece written with his wife Martha.
Kneale was also known as a philosopher of science and the author of a book on probability and induction.
Educated at the Liverpool Institute High School for boys, he later became a fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, and in 1960 succeeded to the White's Professor of Moral Philosophy previously occupied by the linguistic philosopher J.
L.
Austin.
He retired in 1966.