1939 – 2022
Terence Parsons (1939-2022) was an American philosopher known for his work in philosophy of language, logic, and metaphysics. He is particularly noted for his defense of Meinongian semantics, his work on nonexistent objects, and his contributions to the logic of events and natural language.
Developed a formal theory of nonexistent objects reviving Meinongian semantics
Authored 'Nonexistent Objects' (1980), a landmark work in metaphysics
Contributed to event semantics with 'Events in the Semantics of English' (1990)
Advanced work on Aristotelian and medieval logic
Professor Emeritus at UCLA