Victor Howard ("Vic") Dudman (October 10, 1935January 10, 2009) was an Australian

logician Logic is the study of correct reasoning. It includes both formal and informal logic. Formal logic is the science of deductively valid inferences or of logical truths. It is a formal science investigating how conclusions follow from premises ...

based at

Macquarie University Macquarie University ( ) is a public research university based in Sydney, Australia, in the suburb of Macquarie Park. Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it was the third university to be established in the metropolitan area of S ...

. Born in

Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ...

, he was greatly influenced by

Willard Van Orman Quine Willard Van Orman Quine (; known to his friends as "Van"; June 25, 1908 – December 25, 2000) was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition, recognized as "one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century". ...

on whose work he based his undergraduate logic courses. He is particularly noted for his views on the interpretation of the

material conditional The material conditional (also known as material implication) is an operation commonly used in logic. When the conditional symbol \rightarrow is interpreted as material implication, a formula P \rightarrow Q is true unless P is true and Q is ...

. David Lewis, a frequent visitor to Australian departments of logic, once noted "If Dudman's view is correct, and I cannot at the moment see what is wrong with it, then almost everything I have written on conditionals is mistaken".

Jean Curthoys Jean Curthoys (born 1947) is an Australian feminist philosopher. She was born in Broken Hill, New South Wales, the daughter of Geoffrey and Barbara Curthoys, leading members of the Communist Party of Australia. Her sister Ann Curthoys is an aca ...

saw through the press and wrote an introduction to
Victor Dudman's Grammar and Semantics
' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).

References

External links

in the Sydney Morning Herald.

in the Brisbane Times.

list of Dudman's journal articles. 1935 births 2009 deaths Scientists from Sydney University of Sydney alumni Academic staff of Macquarie University Australian logicians 20th-century Australian philosophers {{Australia-academic-bio-stub