Biography:W. D. Hart

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Short description: American philosopher (born 1943)
Wilbur Dyre Hart III
Born1943 (age 80–81)
EducationHarvard University (PhD)
Era21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic
InstitutionsUniversity of Illinois at Chicago
ThesisWittgenstein, Philosophy, Logic and Mathematics (1969)
Doctoral advisorBurton Dreben, Stanley Cavell
Doctoral studentsZiya Movahed
Main interests
Logic, philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics, and epistemology

Wilbur Dyre Hart (born 1943) is an American philosopher and professor emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He taught at the University of Michigan from 1969 to 1974, the University College London from 1974 to 1991, and the University of New Mexico from 1992 to 1993.[1] Hart is known for his research on logic, philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics, and epistemology.[2][3]

Books

  • The Engines of the Soul, Cambridge University Press, 1988
  • The Evolution of Logic, Cambridge University Press, 2010
  • Hart, W.D. (ed., 1996), The Philosophy of Mathematics, Oxford University Press

See also

References

  1. "Hart, W.D.". https://phil.uic.edu/profiles/hart-w-d/. 
  2. Boër, Steven (1991). "Review of The Engines of the Soul". Noûs 25 (4): 561–566. doi:10.2307/2216079. ISSN 0029-4624. 
  3. Hale, Bob (September 1998). "Review: W. D. Hart, The Philosophy of Mathematics" (in EN). Journal of Symbolic Logic 63 (3): 1180–1183. doi:10.2307/2586733. ISSN 0022-4812. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jsl/1183745587.