About Dag Prawitz
Born 1936. Dag Prawitz is a Swedish mathematician, philosopher, university teacher and logician.
Dag Prawitz (born 1936, Stockholm) is a Swedish philosopher and logician. He is best known for his work on proof theory and the foundations of natural deduction, and for his contributions to proof-theoretic semantics.
Prawitz is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters and Antiquity and the Royal Swedish Academy of Science.
In the Fall of 1991, he was a Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala, Sweden.
Prawitz was awarded the Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy in 2020.
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Swedish philosopher and logician
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Dag Prawitz was born on 16 May 1936 in Stockholm.
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Dag Prawitz is a mathematician, philosopher, university teacher and logician.
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