Biography:Bob Hale (philosopher)
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Short description: British philosopher
Bob Hale | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1945 |
| Died | (aged 72) |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy Neo-logicism (Scottish School)[1] |
Main interests | Philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language, modality |
Notable ideas | Neo-logicism, essentialist theory of modality[2] |
Bob Hale, FRSE (1945 – 12 December 2017)[3] was a British philosopher, known for his contributions to the development of the neo-Fregean (neo-logicist) philosophy of mathematics in collaboration with Crispin Wright, and for his works in modality and philosophy of language.[4]
Career
Hale obtained a BPhil in Philosophy in 1967 from Linacre College, University of Oxford.[5] From 2006 until his death, he was a professor of philosophy in the department of philosophy at the University of Sheffield. Prior to that, he taught in the University of Glasgow, the University of St. Andrews and the University of Lancaster.
Hale produced the first published neo-Fregean construction of the real numbers.[4][6] In his book (Necessary Beings), he argues for an essentialist theory of necessity and possibility.[6]
Notable positions
- British Academy Research Reader (1997–9)
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (from 2000)[6]
- President of the Aristotelian Society (2002–3)[7]
- Leverhulme Senior Research Fellow (2009–11)
Selected works
- (1987) Abstract Objects. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.[8]
- (1997) Co-editor with Crispin Wright. The Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Language. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
- (2001) With Crispin Wright. The Reason's Proper Study: Essays towards a Neo-Fregean Philosophy of Mathematics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.[9]
- (2013) "Necessary Beings – An Essay on Ontology, Modality, and the Relations Between Them" Oxford: Oxford University Press.[10]
References
- ↑ st-andrews.ac.uk
- ↑ Hale, Bob (2012), "What is absolute necessity?", Philosophia Scientiae, 16(2), 117–148.
- ↑ Memorial Notice for Bob Hale, Sheffield Department of Philosophy, 18 December 2017, https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/philosophy/news/memorial-notice-1.752700
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Bob Hale RIP (1945–2017)", 3:AM Magazine, 16 December 2017, http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/bob-hale-rip-1945-2017/
- ↑ Linacre News, Issue 54, Linacre College, Autumn 2017, https://www.linacre.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/magazine-pdfs/issue_54.pdf
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "Profile: Bob Hale". Sheffield Department of Philosophy. https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/profiles/hale.
- ↑ The Council, The Aristotelian Society, retrieved 2012-12-03.
- ↑ Reviews of Abstract Objects:
- "none", Mind 97 (387): 487–490, July 1988, doi:10.1093/mind/xcvii.387.487
- Freedman, David (October 1988), "none", Philosophical Books 29 (4): 214–217, doi:10.1111/j.1468-0149.1988.tb02079.x
- Stahl, Gérold (January–March 1989), "none", Revue philosophique de la France et de l'étranger 179 (1): 109
- Künne, Wolfgang (June 1989), "none", Ratio 2 (1): 89–100, doi:10.1111/j.1467-9329.1989.tb00129.x
- Noonan, Harold W. (July 1989), "none", The Philosophical Quarterly 39 (156): 354–357, doi:10.2307/2220176
- Sweet, Albert (September 1989), "none", The Review of Metaphysics 43 (1): 166–168
- "none", The Philosophical Review 101 (2): 414–416, April 1992, doi:10.2307/2185558
- Hodes, Harold T. (1992), "none", International Studies in Philosophy 24 (3): 146–148, doi:10.5840/intstudphil1992243140
- ↑ Review of The Reason's Proper Study: Essays towards a Neo-Fregean Philosophy of Mathematics:
- Uzquiano, Gabriel (June 2006), "none", The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 12 (2): 291–294, doi:10.1017/S1079898600002729
- ↑ Reviews of Necessary Beings: An Essay on Ontology, Modality, and the Relations Between Them:
- Kauss, Dominik (August 2014), "none", Theoria 80 (3): 277–282, doi:10.1111/theo.12053
- Kürbis, Nils (May 2015), "Necessary beings by Bob Hale", Disputatio 7 (40): 92–100, doi:10.2478/disp-2015-0006
External links
- Interview at 3:AM Magazine
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