| Region: | Western philosophy |
| Era: | 19th-century philosophy |
| George Paxton Young | |
| Birth Date: | 9 Nov 1818 |
| Birth Place: | Berwick-upon-Tweed |
| Death Date: | 26 Feb 1889 |
| Death Place: | Toronto, Canada |
| Institutions: | University of Toronto |
| Main Interests: | Boolean algebra, quintic equations, Abelian functions |
| Influences: | Edward Caird, Thomas Hill Green |
| Influenced: | Charles Taylor (philosopher) |
George Paxton Young (9 November 1818 – 26 February 1889) was a Canadian philosopher and professor of logic, metaphysics and ethics at the University of Toronto.[1] [2] He studied the quintic polynomial equation and in 1888 described how to solve a solvable quintic equation, without providing an explicit formula.[3]
The Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto grants the George Paxton Young Memorial Prize annually to students who read a refereed philosophy paper at an international, national or regional philosophy conference.[4]