Logic, Language, and Mathematics: Themes from the Philosophy of Crispin Wright

Alexander Miller

ISBN 10: 0199278342 / ISBN 13: 9780199278343

Published by Oxford University Press, 2020

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• Title: Logic, Language, and Mathematics: Themes from the Philosophy of Crispin Wright
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199278342
• ISBN 13: 9780199278343
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 811 grams

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Synopsis

Crispin Wright is widely recognised as one of the most important and influential analytic philosophers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This volume is a collective exploration of the major themes of his work in philosophy of language, philosophical logic, and philosophy of mathematics. It comprises specially written chapters by a group of internationally renowned thinkers, as well as four substantial responses from Wright. In these thematically organized replies, Wright summarizes his life's work and responds to the contributory essays collected in this book. In bringing together such scholarship, the present volume testifies to both the enormous interest in Wright's thought and the continued relevance of Wright's seminal contributions in analytic philosophy for present-day debates;

About the Author

Alexander Miller, Professor of Philosophy, University of Otago

Alexander Miller took his undergraduate degree in mathematics and philosophy at the University of Glasgow. He then did his graduate work in philosophy at the universities of St. Andrews and Michigan. Miller is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Otago. Prior to this, he taught at Birmingham, Nottingham, Cardiff, and Macquarie.

Crispin Wright specializes in the philosophies of language and mathematics, metaphysics, and epistemology. He is Global Professor of Philosophy at New York University, Professor of Philosophical Research at the University of Stirling, and Regius Professor of Logic Emeritus at the University of Aberdeen. He has taught at Columbia, Michigan, Princeton, St. Andrews (where he was the first Wardlaw University Professor), Arché, and Aberdeen (where he held the Regius Chair of Logic and was Director of the Northern Institute of Philosophy).