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A Handbook of Logic
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- GenresPhilosophy
256 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1957
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Joseph Gerard Brennan
16 booksJoseph Gerard Brennan was a US American philosophy educator.
Brennan was the son of Joseph and Nora (Sheridan) Brennan, and grew up in an Irish-Catholic family in Massachusetts, USA. He recounted his philosophical progress from his roots to the 1950s in his The Education of a Prejudiced Man (1953)
He received an AB from Boston College in 1933, proceeding to an AM from Harvard University in 1935 and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1942. In 1984 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Salve Regina University (Newport, Rhode Island, USA).
Brennan was a believer in libraries, being a founding trustee of the Levittown Public Library in New York from 1950-1954, and a trustee of Bethpage Public Library (also in New York) from 1956 until 1980.
During WWII he served in the United States Naval Reserve (1943-1946), joining up after completing his PhD.
Brennan married Mary Jean McLeod in 1938, with whom he had six children.
Brennan was the son of Joseph and Nora (Sheridan) Brennan, and grew up in an Irish-Catholic family in Massachusetts, USA. He recounted his philosophical progress from his roots to the 1950s in his The Education of a Prejudiced Man (1953)
He received an AB from Boston College in 1933, proceeding to an AM from Harvard University in 1935 and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1942. In 1984 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Salve Regina University (Newport, Rhode Island, USA).
Brennan was a believer in libraries, being a founding trustee of the Levittown Public Library in New York from 1950-1954, and a trustee of Bethpage Public Library (also in New York) from 1956 until 1980.
During WWII he served in the United States Naval Reserve (1943-1946), joining up after completing his PhD.
Brennan married Mary Jean McLeod in 1938, with whom he had six children.
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