Jody Azzouni
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Jody Azzouni (born Jawad Azzouni, 1954) is an American philosopher. He currently is Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University.
Education[]
He received his bachelor's degree and master's degree from New York University and his PhD from the City University of New York.
Philosophical work[]
Azzouni is currently working on the philosophy of mathematics (he holds a degree in mathematics), science, logic, language and in areas of metaphysics, epistemology, and aesthetics. He acknowledges a debt to Willard Van Orman Quine. Azzouni is of the nominalist bent and has centered much of his philosophical efforts around defending nominalism.
Books[]
- Metaphysical Myths, Mathematical Practice: The Ontology and Epistemology of the Exact Sciences Cambridge University Press, 1994.
- Knowledge and Reference in Empirical Science Routledge, 2000.
- Deflating Existential Consequence: A Case for Nominalism Oxford University Press 2004
- Reviews, Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, 10:4,Dec. 2004, p.573-577; Philosophia Mathematica, 2009.
- Tracking Reason: Proof, Consequence and Truth. Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Talking About Nothing: Numbers, Hallucinations and Fictions. Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Semantic perception : how the illusion of a common language arises and persists. Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Review, Mind, 2016 link
- Ontology without Borders. Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Review, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews ejournal link
- The Rule-Following Paradox and its Implications for Metaphysics. Synthese Library Book. 2017
- Attributing Knowledge: What It Means to Know Something. Oxford University Press, 2020.
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