1936 – 2021
David Bostock (1936–2021) was a British philosopher and longtime fellow of Merton College, Oxford, whose work spanned ancient philosophy, logic, and philosophy of language. He produced influential commentaries on Plato and Aristotle alongside technical contributions to formal logic and the philosophy of mathematics.
Authored systematic commentaries on Plato's Phaedo and Theaetetus
Wrote Aristotle's Metaphysics (1994), a close analytical reading of Books Z and H
Produced a widely used logic textbook, Intermediate Logic (1997)
Contributed to philosophy of mathematics with Philosophy of Mathematics: An Introduction (2009)
Analyzed problems of linguistic identity, including the individuation of word-tokens from inscriptions
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