Biography:Ruth Manor
Ruth (Ruru) Manor (Hebrew: רות מנור; née Wolman, 1944–2005) was an Israeli philosopher and logician.
Life
Manor was born in 1944[1] in Addis Ababa, where her father, Moshe Wolman, was the physician to Haile Selassie. After the family returned to Israel, she grew up in Jerusalem, and moved as a teenager to Tel Aviv. She did her undergraduate studies in mathematics and philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Next, she studied for a master's degree at the University of Pittsburgh with logician Nicholas Rescher;[2] their joint work, published in 1970,[RM] produced the Rescher–Manor mechanism for deriving consequences from consistent subsets of inconsistent assumptions.[2] Continuing at the University of Pittsburgh, she completed a Ph.D. in 1971, with the dissertation Conditional forms: assertion, necessity, obligation and commands supervised by Nuel Belnap.[3]
Manor taught in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Virginia Tech in 1973 and 1974.[4] She returned to Israel, but was unsuccessful at obtaining an academic position there. Instead, she joined the philosophy department at San Jose State University in California,[2] where she was tenured in 1986, promoted to full professor in 1988,[1] and eventually became head of the department. In 1993, she took a position at Tel Aviv University,[2] while continuing to hold her affiliation at San Jose State University, from which she retired in 2004.[1]
Late in her life she published a book on the philosophy of health care with her father.[1][5][WM] She died in 2005.[1][2]
Recognition
After a conference in her memory at Tel Aviv University, a festschrift was published, entitled Hues of Philosophy.[6]
Selected publications
| RM. | Rescher, Nicholas; Manor, Ruth (December 1970), "On inference from inconsistent premisses", Theory and Decision 1 (2): 179–217, doi:10.1007/bf00154005 |
| WM. | Doctors' Errors and Mistakes of Medicine: Must Health Care Deteriorate?, Biomedical and health research, 59, IOS Press, 2004, ISBN 978-1-58603-403-0[5] |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Philosophy faculty and staff: In memoriam, San Jose State University, https://www.sjsu.edu/philosophy/about-us/faculty-and-staff/, retrieved 2024-08-26; "Obituary: Ruth Manor", Newsletter: Department of Philosophy (San Jose State University), October 2006, https://www.sjsu.edu/philosophy/docs/webNewsletterFall2006.doc, retrieved 2024-08-26
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Dromi, Uri (24 November 2005), "'A major talent' in philosophy", Haaretz, https://www.haaretz.com/2005-11-24/ty-article/a-major-talent-in-philosophy/0000017f-db67-db5a-a57f-db6fc4ab0000
- ↑ Ruth Manor at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "Mrs. Ruth Manor – Philosophy and Religion, 1973 – 1974", Special Collections and University Archives (Virginia Tech), https://aspace.lib.vt.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/85953, retrieved 2024-08-26
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Reviews of Doctors' Errors and Mistakes of Medicine:
- Alfredo Margreth, Belfagor, JSTOR 26150254
- D. Nachson, Medicine and Law[1]
- Goodman, Neville W (2004). "Doctors' Errors and Mistakes of Medicine: Must Health Care Deteriorate?". BMJ 329 (7456): 58.
- ↑ Biletzki, Anat, ed. (2010), Hues of Philosophy: Essays in Memory of Ruth Manor, College Publications
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