A notice of the Royal Society of New Zealand's "Matter and Life" lecture series held at Canterbury University College. Popper's "Mechanism and Vitalism" was scheduled to be the final lecture.
Alfred Tarski (1901–1983), probably the most famous logician that came out of the Warsaw School of Logic. He was a student of Jan Łukasiewicz at the University of Warsaw. He emigrated to the United States in 1939, at the beginning of the German…
The Calendar of the Canterbury University College for the year 1954. The pages 17-19 of the Calendar list the college academic staff in 1954 by departments. In the department of Philosophy (p.18), Professor of Philosophy is Arthur N. Prior M.A. (NZ),…