Benson Mates
- Benson Mates was an American philosopher at the University of California, Berkeley.
- He studied philosophy and mathematics at various universities and had influential teachers.
- Mates’s work focused on logic, the history of philosophy, and skepticism.
- His dissertation and book Stoic Logic formed the basis for his work in symbolic logic.
- Mates defended a stance akin to Pyrrhonian skepticism, arguing that major problems of philosophy are intelligible but defy solution.
- Unlike classical Pyrrhonists, Mates found skeptical arguments lead to unsatisfactory perplexity rather than ataraxia.
- Mates wrote books on Stoic Logic, Elementary Logic, Skeptical Essays, and the Philosophy of Leibniz.
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