- Bob Hale (philosopher)
Infobox_Philosopher
region = Western Philosophy
era =Contemporary philosophy ,
color = #B0C4DEimage_caption = Bob Hale
name = Bob Hale
birth = 1945
death =
school_tradition =Analytic philosophy
main_interests =Philosophy of mathematics ,Philosophy of language ,Modality
influences =Gottlob Frege
influenced =
notable_ideas = neo-Fregeanphilosophy of mathematics Bob Hale (born 1945) is a British
philosopher , who is well-known for his contributions to the development of the neo-Fregeanphilosophy of mathematics in collaboration withCrispin Wright , and for his works inmodality andphilosophy of language . Since 2006, he has been a professor ofphilosophy in the department of philosophy at theUniversity of Sheffield . He also had been a lecturer in theUniversity of Glasgow , theUniversity of St. Andrews and theUniversity of Lancaster .Hale wrote the first published neo-Fregean
construction of the real numbers .Notable Positions
*
British Academy Research Reader (1997-9)
* Fellow of theRoyal Society of Edinburgh (from 2000)
* President of theAristotelian Society (2002-3)elected Works
* (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 .External links
* http://shef.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/profiles/hale.html
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