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Field, Hartry Professor of Philosophy, New York University.

Field, Hartry Professor of Philosophy, New York University. Hartry Field In the early 1930s there was prevalent, among scientifically minded philosophers, the view that semantic notions such as the notions of truth and denotation were illegitimate: that they could or should not be incorporated into a scientific conception of the world. But when Tarski's work on truth became known, all this changed.

Truth and the Absence. Ph. D. Harvard), Silver Professor of Philosophy, specializes in metaphysics, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of logic, and philosophy of science. He has had fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is the author of Science Without Numbers (Blackwell 1980), which won the HARTRY FIELD (.

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Home Browse Books Book details, Truth and the Absence of Fact. Truth and the Absence of Fact. Hartry Field presents a selection of thirteen of his most important essays on a set of related topics at the foundations of philosophy; one essay is previously unpublished, and eight are accompanied by substantial new postscripts. Five of the essays are primarily about truth, meaning, and propositional attitudes, five are primarily about semantic indeterminacy and other kinds of 'factual defectiveness' in our discourse, and three areprimarily about issues concerning objectivity, especially in mathematics and in epistemology.

A Clarendon Press Publication. Hartry Field is Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He is author of Science Without Numbers (198?), which won the Lakatos/Matchette Prize, and Realism, Mathematics, and Modality (199?). Science without Numbers. Grundgesetze',. Reading Frege's Grundgesetze.

Truth and the Absence of Fact. The heart of Field's book, which I'm now reading, is to show that there are interesting nominalistic formulations of typical scientific theories, like Newtonian physics. He says that his approach here could be easily extended to classical electrodynamics with special relativity. I believe hi. Given such a formulation, abstract mathematics becomes merely a useful tool, making essentially nominalistic inferences easier-as natural scientists have always thought.

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Book Information Truth and the Absence of Fact. This can be avoided, however, if truth-ascriptions to sentences are taken as a certain form of pragmatic ellipses. I end by showing how this hypothesis accommodates a number of intuitions involving truth-ascriptions to sentences.

Hartry H. Field (born November 30, 1946) is an American philosopher. Truth and the Absence of Fact, Oxford University Press 2001. Saving Truth from Paradox, Oxford University Press, 2008. He is Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University and a notable contributor to philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind. His current view on this matter is in favor of a deflationary theory of truth.

Contributions to symposium on Truth and the Absence of Fact (Precis of book and responses to Gupta and Martinez-Fernandez, Loewer . Silver Professor; University Professor; Professor of Philosophy hf18@nyu

Contributions to symposium on Truth and the Absence of Fact (Precis of book and responses to Gupta and Martinez-Fernandez, Loewer, and McGee), Philosophical Studies (May 2005), pp. 41–44 and 105–28. Variations on a Theme by Yablo (PDF)", in Beall and Armour-Garb, ed. Deflationism and Paradox (Oxford University Press 2004), pp. 53–74. Silver Professor; University Professor; Professor of Philosophy hf18@nyu. edu Department of Philosophy 5 Washington Place New York, NY 10003 Phone: (212) 998-3795 Office Hours: Monday, 4–5:15pm.

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