Bob Hale Philosopher

Bob Hale, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh FRSE, is a British philosopher, well known for his contributions to the development of the neo-Fregean philosophy of mathematics in collaboration with Crispin Wright, and for his works in modality and philosophy of language.Since 2006, he has been 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.

Personal facts

Birth dateJanuary 01, 1945
Era
Contemporary philosophy
Main interest
Philosophy of language
Philosophy of mathematics
Modal logic

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Philosopher

influenced by
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Gottlob Frege
philosophical school
Analytic philosophy

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