Raymond Smullyan

Quotes

• “I have free will, but not of my own choice. I have never freely chosen to have free will. I have to have free will, whether I like it or not!”
• “If it is really true that you cannot resist them, then you are not sinning of your own free will and hence (at least according to me) not sinning at all.”
• “There is nothing like a naturalistic orientation to dispel all these morbid thoughts of "sin" and "free will" and "moral responsibility."”
• “Medical opinions differed as to the cause of this "humor" disease.”
• “From what little was known about the subject, insincerity itself was regarded as another form of psychosis but one which was exceedingly rare.”
• “Humor could not flourish in a wholly serious and rational atmosphere.”

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Key facts

Born

Raymond Merrill Smullyan , ( 1919-05-25 ) May 25, 1919, Far Rockaway , New York, U.S.

Died

February 6, 2017 (2017-02-06) (aged 97), Hudson, New York , U.S.

Citizenship

American

Alma mater

University of Chicago , Princeton University (PhD)

Spouse

Blanche

Fields

Logic

Institutions

Dartmouth College , Princeton University , Yeshiva University , Lehman College , City University of New York , Indiana University

Thesis

Theory of Formal Systems (1959)

Doctoral advisor

Alonzo Church

Doctoral students

Melvin Fitting Henry Pogorzelski

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Wikidata facts

Official website

raymondsmullyan.com

Image

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