Bob Hale (philosopher)
British philosopher
Bob Hale , FRSE (1945 – 12 December 2017)[3] was a British philosopher, known for his contributions to the development of the neo-Fregean (neo-logicist) philosophy of mathematics in collaboration with Crispin Wright , and for his works in modality and philosophy of language .[4]
Career
Hale obtained a BPhil in Philosophy in 1967 from Linacre College , University of Oxford .[5] From 2006 until his death, he was a professor of philosophy in the department of philosophy at the University of Sheffield . Prior to that, he taught in the University of Glasgow , the University of St. Andrews and the University of Lancaster .
Hale produced the first published neo-Fregean construction of the real numbers .[4] [6] In his book (Necessary Beings ), he argues for an essentialist theory of necessity and possibility.[6]
Notable positions
Selected works
(1987) Abstract Objects . Oxford: Blackwell Publishing .[8]
(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 .[9]
(2013) "Necessary Beings – An Essay on Ontology, Modality, and the Relations Between Them" Oxford: Oxford University Press .[10]
References
^ st-andrews.ac.uk Archived 2006-12-24 at the Wayback Machine
^ Hale, Bob (2012), "What is absolute necessity?", Philosophia Scientiae , 16 (2), 117–148.
^ Memorial Notice for Bob Hale , Sheffield Department of Philosophy, 18 December 2017
^ a b "Bob Hale RIP (1945–2017)" , 3:AM Magazine , 16 December 2017
^ Linacre News, Issue 54 (PDF) , Linacre College, Autumn 2017
^ a b c "Profile: Bob Hale" . Sheffield Department of Philosophy. Archived from the original on 21 September 2016.
^ The Council , The Aristotelian Society, retrieved 2012-12-03.
^ Reviews of Abstract Objects :
Williamson, Timothy (July 1988), Mind , 97 (387): 487–490, doi :10.1093/mind/xcvii.387.487 , JSTOR 2255093 {{citation }}
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Freedman, David (October 1988), Philosophical Books , 29 (4): 214–217, doi :10.1111/j.1468-0149.1988.tb02079.x {{citation }}
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Stahl, Gérold (January–March 1989), Revue philosophique de la France et de l'étranger , 179 (1): 109, JSTOR 41095963 {{citation }}
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Künne, Wolfgang (June 1989), Ratio , 2 (1): 89–100, doi :10.1111/j.1467-9329.1989.tb00129.x {{citation }}
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Noonan, Harold W. (July 1989), The Philosophical Quarterly , 39 (156): 354–357, doi :10.2307/2220176 , JSTOR 2220176 {{citation }}
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Sweet, Albert (September 1989), The Review of Metaphysics , 43 (1): 166–168, JSTOR 20128851 {{citation }}
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Burgess, John P. (April 1992), The Philosophical Review , 101 (2): 414–416, doi :10.2307/2185558 , JSTOR 2185558 {{citation }}
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Hodes, Harold T. (1992), International Studies in Philosophy , 24 (3): 146–148, doi :10.5840/intstudphil1992243140 {{citation }}
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^ Review of The Reason's Proper Study: Essays towards a Neo-Fregean Philosophy of Mathematics :
^ Reviews of Necessary Beings: An Essay on Ontology, Modality, and the Relations Between Them :
Kauss, Dominik (August 2014), Theoria , 80 (3): 277–282, doi :10.1111/theo.12053 {{citation }}
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Kürbis, Nils (May 2015), "Necessary beings by Bob Hale", Disputatio , 7 (40): 92–100, doi :10.2478/disp-2015-0006 , S2CID 171750707
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