Donald Kalish

Donald Kalish (1919-2000) was an American logician and anti-war activist.

Background

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Kalish earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in psychology and his doctorate in philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught at Swarthmore College and the University of California.

Kalish was perhaps best known for his opposition to the war in Vietnam and later, his opposition to U.S. military involvement in Nicaragua and Grenada. As chairman of the Philosophy Department of the University of California, Los Angeles, Kalish hired Marxist political activist Angela Davis, an act that drew considerable controversy at the time.

Publication

• Logic: Techniques of Formal Reasoning by Richard Montague and Donald Kalish