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.

External links[]

• Jody Azzouni's poetry website
• Faculty profile page

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