# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-corcoran
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:26:34.661Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-corcoran"
name: "John Corcoran"
slug: "john-corcoran"
description: "John Corcoran was an American logician, philosopher, mathematician, and historian of logic. He is best known for his philosophical work on concepts such as the nature of inference, relations between conditions, argument-deduction-proof distinctions, the relationship between logic and epistemology, and the place of proof theory and model theory in logic. Nine of Corcoran's papers have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Persian, and Arabic; his 1989 \"signature\" essay was translated into three languages. Fourteen of his papers have been reprinted; one was reprinted twice."
tagline: "American logician (1937–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Corcoran_Logician2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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birthDate: "1937"
deathDate: "2021-01-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.476602666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump