Paul Horwich
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Paul Horwich | |
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| Born | Paul Gordon Horwich 1947 |
| Education | Minimal theory of truth |
Paul Gordon Horwich (born 1947) is a British
Wittgenstein
's later philosophy.
Education and career
Horwich read Physics at Oxford, graduating in 1968, and earned his PhD in Philosophy from
MIT, where he taught from 1973 until 1994, when he took up a post at University College London. He returned to the U.S. in 2000, to take up a chair at the CUNY Graduate Center. He moved to NYU in 2005.[1]
Philosophical work
In Truth (1990), Horwich presented a detailed defence of the
scientific methodology and a unified explanation of temporally asymmetric phenomena.[2]
In the context of philosophical speculations about
grandfather paradox, in which a person goes back in time and deliberately or inadvertently kills their infant self.[3]
Books
- Probability and Evidence (Cambridge University Press, 1982)[4]
- Asymmetries in Time (MIT Press, Bradford Books, 1987)
- Truth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990; 2nd edn. 1998)
- Meaning (Oxford University Press, 1998)
- From a Deflationary Point of View (Oxford University Press, 2004)[5]
- Reflections on Meaning (Oxford University Press, 2005)
- Truth—Meaning—Reality (Oxford University Press, 2010)
- Wittgenstein's Metaphilosophy (Oxford University Press, 2012)
References
Citations
- ^ as.nyu.edu
- ^ NYU faculty page
- ^ Asymmetries in Time: Problems in the Philosophy of Science by Paul Horwich, MIT Press, 1987.
- ^ Block 2005
- ^ Review of "From a Deflationary Point of View", accessed January 2011
Sources
- Block, N. (2005). "Horwich, Paul". In ISBN 0-19-926479-1.
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