James Garson is an American philosopher and logician. He has made significant contributions in the study of modal logic

Modal logic

Modal logic is a type of formal logic that extends classical propositional and predicate logic to include operators expressing modality. Modals — words that express modalities — qualify a statement. For example, the statement "John is happy" might be qualified by saying that John is...

 and formal semantics, and is author of Modal Logic for Philosophers by Cambridge University Press

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. Garson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Houston

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 and has taught at the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

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, the University of Notre Dame

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, the University of Illinois at Chicago

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 (where he was a visiting professor in computer science

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), and Rice University

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Garson has a B.A. from Haverford College

Haverford College

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 and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh

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