Bob Hale (philosopher)
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| Born | 1945 |
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| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy |
| Main interests | Philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language, modality |
| Notable ideas | neo-Fregean philosophy of mathematics |
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Robert Hale FBA, FRSE (born 1945) is a British philosopher, who is well known for his contributions to the development of the neo-Fregean philosophy of mathematics in collaboration with Crispin Wright, and for his works in modality and philosophy of language.
Since 2006, he has been a professor of philosophy in the department of philosophy at the University of Sheffield. He also had been a lecturer in the University of Glasgow, the University of St. Andrews and the University of Lancaster.
Hale wrote the first published neo-Fregean construction of the real numbers.[1]
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Notable Positions [edit]
- British Academy Research Reader (1997–9)
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (from 2000)[2]
- President of the Aristotelian Society (2002–3)[3]
Selected works [edit]
- (1987) Abstract Objects. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
- (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.
References [edit]
- ^ "Bob Hale Official Webpage on Sheffield University, Philosophy Department". shef.ac.uk. Retrieved 2010-10-04.
- ^ "Bob Hale Official Webpage on Sheffield University, Philosophy Department". shef.ac.uk. Retrieved 2012-12-05.
- ^ The Council, The Aristotelian Society, retrieved 2012-12-03.
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