July 28

Rose Rand was an Austrian-born American logician and philosopher best known for her work in philosophy of language and formal logic. She studied under Ludwig Wittgenstein at Cambridge University, engaging deeply with analytic philosophy. After emigrating to the United States, she held research positions at institutions such as the University of Pennsylvania and Washington University in St. Louis. Rand published influential papers on the foundations of logic, inference, and meaning. Despite facing gender and refugee challenges, she persisted in advancing scholarly discourse. Her correspondence and notes on Wittgenstein have provided valuable insights into early analytic philosophy.