Hartry Field
Philosopher, Academic
1946 –
Who is Hartry Field?
Hartry H. Field is Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University and a leading contributor to philosophy of language, mind, and mathematics. He previously taught at Princeton University, the University of Southern California and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University under the direction of Hilary Putnam.
His first work was a commentary on Alfred Tarski's theory of truth, which he has worked on since 1972. His current view on this matter is in favor of a deflationary theory of truth. His most influential work produced in this period is probably "Theory Change and the Indeterminacy of Reference", in which he introduced the concept of partial denotation.
In the 1980s, Field started a project in the philosophy of mathematics discussing mathematical fictionalism, the doctrine that all mathematical statements are merely useful fictions, and shouldn't be taken to be literally true. More precisely, Field holds that the existence of sets may be denied, in opposition to Quine and Putnam.
He is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Birmingham, UK.
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- Born
- Nov 30, 1946
Boston - Also known as
- Hartry H. Field
- Hartry Hamlin Field
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, Harvard University
Philosophy
( - 1972)
- PhD, Harvard University
- Employment
- New York University
- Lived in
- New York metropolitan area
(1991 - )
- New York metropolitan area
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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