Israel Scheffler (November 25, 1923 – February 16, 2014)[1] was an American philosopher of science and of education.
[2] He defended his doctoral thesis, On Quotation, at the University of Pennsylvania in 1952, where he studied with Nelson Goodman[3] and began teaching that year at Harvard University, where he spent his career.
[4] His main interests lay in the philosophical interpretation of language, symbolism, science and education.
He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a founding member of the National Academy of Education and a past president of both the Philosophy of Science Association and the Charles S. Peirce Society.
[2] His works have been translated from English into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Persian.