Maxwell John Cresswell (19 November 1939 – 22 September 2024) was a New Zealand philosopher and logician who was known for his work in modal logic.
Cresswell's thesis was titled General and Specific Logics of Functions of Propositions.
from Victoria University), becoming a reader in 1973, and then a professor from 1974 to 2000, interrupted by several visiting professorships.
[3] With his colleague and former teacher George Edward Hughes, Cresswell was the co-author of An Introduction to Modal Logic, London, Methuen, 1968); this was the first modern textbook on modal logic and introduced many students to Kripke semantics.
[1] Cresswell died in Palmerston North on 22 September 2024, at the age of 84.