Hartry Field
Biographic Data
| ID | 3865929 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hartry Field |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hartry |
| FAMILY NAME | Field |
| SIGNATURE | FIELD H |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Conventionalism about mathematics and logic
Conventionalism about mathematics has much in common with two other views: fictionalism and the multiverse view ( aka plenitudinous platonism). The three views may differ over the existence of mathematical objects, but they agree in rejecting a certain kind of objectivity claim about mathematics, advocating instead an extreme pluralism. The early parts of the paper will try to elucidate this anti‐objectivist position, and question whether convent…
Science without Numbers
Saving Truth From Paradox
The book is an opinionated survey of philosophical work on paradoxes of truth and of related notions, such as property-instantiation, with occasional forays into related topics such as vagueness, the nature of validity, and the Gödel incompleteness theorems. It advocates a particular approach, according to which the paradoxes are to be resolved by the adoption of a non-classical logic: a logic in which excluded middle is restricted. (The logic is…
Maudlin's Truth and Paradox
The Consistency of The Naive Theory of Properties
According to the Naive Theory of Properties, for every predicate Θ(x) there is a corresponding property λxΘ(x). Moreover, this property λxΘ(x) is instantiated by an object o if and only if Θ(o). More generally, the Naive Theory involves the following "Naive Comprehension Schema"
Truth and the Absence of Fact
Truth and the Absence of Fact
This is a collection of papers, written over many years, with substantial postscripts tying them together and giving an updated perspective on them. The first five are on the notions of truth and truth‐conditions, and their role in a theory of meaning and of the content of our mental states. The next five deal with what I call ‘factually defective discourse’—discourse that gives rise to issues about which, it is tempting to say that, there is no …
Deflating the Conservativeness Argument
XV—The A Prioricity of Logic
XV—The A Prioricity of Logic Get access Hartry Field Hartry Field Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 96, Issue 1, 1 June 1996, Pages 359–380, https://doi.org/10.1093/aristotelian/96.1.359 Published: 09 September 2015
Deflationist Views of Meaning and Content
Journal Article Deflationist Views of Meaning and Content Get access HARTRY FIELD HARTRY FIELD Department of Philosophy, The Graduate Center, City University of New York33 W. 42nd Street, New York, NY 10024 [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mind, Volume 103, Issue 411, July 1994, Pages 249–285, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/103.411.249 Published: 01 July 1994
Disquotational Truth and Factually Defective Discourse
Robert Stalnaker, Inquiry
This is an interesting, well argued, and highly readable book; anyone interested in the central philosophical problems with which it deals will benefit from studying it. Stalnaker defines inquiry as the process of forming, testing, and revising beliefs. His goal is to lay the groundwork for a theory of inquiry, by elaborating and defending a certain apparatus in terms of which the process of inquiry should be described
On Conservatives and Incompleteness
Is Mathematical Knowledge Just Logical Knowledge
Science Without Numbers
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Science Without Numbers: A Defence of Nominalism. By Hartry H. Field (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1980. Pp. xiv+130. Price £7.95) Michael Lookwood Michael Lookwood The Queen’s College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 32, Issue 128, July 1982, Pages 281–283, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219330 Published: 01 July 1982
Mental representation
A Note on Jeffrey Conditionalization
Bayesian decision theory can be viewed as the core of psychological theory for idealized agents. To get a complete psychological theory for such agents, you have to supplement it with input and output laws. On a Bayesian theory that employs strict conditionalization, the input laws are easy to give. On a Bayesian theory that employs Jeffrey conditionalization, there appears to be a considerable problem with giving the input laws. However, Jeffrey…
The Philosophy of Karl Popper
The Nature of Things
Quine and the Correspondence Theory
Theory Change and The Indterminacy of Reference
Tarski's Theory of Truth
A Note on Jeffrey Conditionalization
Bayesian decision theory can be viewed as the core of psychological theory for idealized agents. To get a complete psychological theory for such agents, you have to supplement it with input and output laws. On a Bayesian theory that employs strict conditionalization, the input laws are easy to give. On a Bayesian theory that employs Jeffrey conditionalization, there appears to be a considerable problem with giving the input laws. However, Jeffrey…
Disquotational Truth and Factually Defective Discourse
Is Mathematical Knowledge Just Logical Knowledge
Quine and the Correspondence Theory
The Consistency of The Naive Theory of Properties
According to the Naive Theory of Properties, for every predicate Θ(x) there is a corresponding property λxΘ(x). Moreover, this property λxΘ(x) is instantiated by an object o if and only if Θ(o). More generally, the Naive Theory involves the following "Naive Comprehension Schema"
Robert Stalnaker, Inquiry
This is an interesting, well argued, and highly readable book; anyone interested in the central philosophical problems with which it deals will benefit from studying it. Stalnaker defines inquiry as the process of forming, testing, and revising beliefs. His goal is to lay the groundwork for a theory of inquiry, by elaborating and defending a certain apparatus in terms of which the process of inquiry should be described
Tarski's Theory of Truth
Theory Change and The Indterminacy of Reference
Quine and the Correspondence Theory
The Nature of Things
Mental representation
A Note on Jeffrey Conditionalization
Bayesian decision theory can be viewed as the core of psychological theory for idealized agents. To get a complete psychological theory for such agents, you have to supplement it with input and output laws. On a Bayesian theory that employs strict conditionalization, the input laws are easy to give. On a Bayesian theory that employs Jeffrey conditionalization, there appears to be a considerable problem with giving the input laws. However, Jeffrey…
The Philosophy of Karl Popper
Science Without Numbers
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Science Without Numbers: A Defence of Nominalism. By Hartry H. Field (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1980. Pp. xiv+130. Price £7.95) Michael Lookwood Michael Lookwood The Queen’s College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 32, Issue 128, July 1982, Pages 281–283, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219330 Published: 01 July 1982
Is Mathematical Knowledge Just Logical Knowledge
On Conservatives and Incompleteness
Robert Stalnaker, Inquiry
This is an interesting, well argued, and highly readable book; anyone interested in the central philosophical problems with which it deals will benefit from studying it. Stalnaker defines inquiry as the process of forming, testing, and revising beliefs. His goal is to lay the groundwork for a theory of inquiry, by elaborating and defending a certain apparatus in terms of which the process of inquiry should be described
Deflationist Views of Meaning and Content
Journal Article Deflationist Views of Meaning and Content Get access HARTRY FIELD HARTRY FIELD Department of Philosophy, The Graduate Center, City University of New York33 W. 42nd Street, New York, NY 10024 [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mind, Volume 103, Issue 411, July 1994, Pages 249–285, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/103.411.249 Published: 01 July 1994
Disquotational Truth and Factually Defective Discourse
XV—The A Prioricity of Logic
XV—The A Prioricity of Logic Get access Hartry Field Hartry Field Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 96, Issue 1, 1 June 1996, Pages 359–380, https://doi.org/10.1093/aristotelian/96.1.359 Published: 09 September 2015
Deflating the Conservativeness Argument
Truth and the Absence of Fact
This is a collection of papers, written over many years, with substantial postscripts tying them together and giving an updated perspective on them. The first five are on the notions of truth and truth‐conditions, and their role in a theory of meaning and of the content of our mental states. The next five deal with what I call ‘factually defective discourse’—discourse that gives rise to issues about which, it is tempting to say that, there is no …
Truth and the Absence of Fact
The Consistency of The Naive Theory of Properties
According to the Naive Theory of Properties, for every predicate Θ(x) there is a corresponding property λxΘ(x). Moreover, this property λxΘ(x) is instantiated by an object o if and only if Θ(o). More generally, the Naive Theory involves the following "Naive Comprehension Schema"
Maudlin's Truth and Paradox
Saving Truth From Paradox
The book is an opinionated survey of philosophical work on paradoxes of truth and of related notions, such as property-instantiation, with occasional forays into related topics such as vagueness, the nature of validity, and the Gödel incompleteness theorems. It advocates a particular approach, according to which the paradoxes are to be resolved by the adoption of a non-classical logic: a logic in which excluded middle is restricted. (The logic is…
Science without Numbers
Conventionalism about mathematics and logic
Conventionalism about mathematics has much in common with two other views: fictionalism and the multiverse view ( aka plenitudinous platonism). The three views may differ over the existence of mathematical objects, but they agree in rejecting a certain kind of objectivity claim about mathematics, advocating instead an extreme pluralism. The early parts of the paper will try to elucidate this anti‐objectivist position, and question whether convent…
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