Frederic Tamler Sommers (January 1, 1923 – October 2, 2014), better known as Fred Sommers, was an American philosopher who, after an initial focus on ontology generally, turned his attention specifically to a revival of classical logic.
Sommers was born in New York City on January 1, 1923.
[1] His family was Jewish and he studied under Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik in the 1950s.
[2] He received his BA and PhD in philosophy at Columbia University, his dissertation being entitled An Empiricist Ontology: A Study in the Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead.
[1] Sommers began his academic career at Columbia University,[3] where he was assistant professor of philosophy from 1955 to 1963.