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Jun 20, 2017 · Michael Potter, who led Cognos from a government consulting firm to a billion-dollar software company, was honoured for his business and philanthropic achievements in 2017. He joined the Plaza of Honour outside the World Exchange Plaza, along with other prominent Ottawa business people.
Michael Potter, Founder of Vintage Wings of Canada Foundation has been collecting and flying vintage aircraft since the mid-1990s. A lifelong pilot, Potter began flying high performance gliders in the 1970s and graduated to power soon thereafter.
May 7, 2015 · Michael Potter is known by many as the Ottawa businessman who made his fortune in hi-tech in the 1990s as the former CEO of Cognos Inc. But only a select group have been invited...
Oct 11, 2016 · Mr. Potter, who led Cognos for two decades and turned it into one of the largest software companies in this city’s history, is the Ottawa Business Journal-Ottawa Chamber of Commerce 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient.
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Michaelmas Term 2022
Truth (for Part IB, Paper 1) Realism and its alternatives (for Part II, Paper 1) The nature of logic (for Part II, Paper 8) Wittgenstein, Blue Book (for Part II, Paper 9)
Lent Term 2023
Wittgenstein's Tractatus(for Part II, Paper 9) Set theory (for Part II, Paper 7) Russell on denoting and the external world programme (for Part IB, Paper 2)
Easter Term 2020
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Books
The Rise of Analytic Philosophy 1879-1930: From Frege to Ramsey, Routledge, 2019 Reviewed in Phenomenological Reviews. Wittgenstein's Notes on Logic, Oxford University Press, 2009 (paperback edition 2011) Set Theory and its Philosophy: A Critical Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2004 Reason's Nearest Kin: Philosophies of Arithmetic from Kant to Carnap, Oxford University Press, 2000 (paperback edition 2002, online edition May 2007) Mengentheorie, Heidelberg: Spektrum Akademischer Verlag,...
Forthcoming book
Wittgenstein's 1916 Transformation
Edited Collections
(Ed. with Peter Sullivan) Wittgenstein's Tractatus: History and interpretationOxford University Press, 2013 (Ed. with Tom Ricketts) The Cambridge Companion to Frege, Cambridge University Press, 2010 (Ed. with Mary Leng and Alexander Paseau) Mathematical Knowledge, Oxford University Press, 2007
Wittgenstein's early philosophy of religionConference on philosophy of religion LMH, Oxford 14-16 September 2011Our grasp of the classical continuumProf Leitgeb's seminar series LMU, Munich 30 June 2011Wittgenstein's early philosophy of religionConference on philosophy of religion Krakow 28 June 2011'Sometimes I seemto see a difficulty': Frege's conception of self-subsistenceColloquium on Frege's Philosophy of Mathematics Bucharest 28-30 May 2011Michael Potter is a philosopher of mathematics and logic, with expertise in the history of analytic philosophy. He has published books and articles on Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Ramsey, set theory, and more.
Ottawa tech trailblazer Michael Potter inducted into Plaza of Honour. Best Ottawa Business Awards. Michael Potter, who transformed an Ottawa software company into a billion-dollar enterprise, was recognized for his decades of business leadership and philanthropic endeavors late last.
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