Bob Hale (philosopher)

Bob Hale
Born 1945
Died (aged 72)
Era Contemporary philosophy
Region Western philosophy
School Analytic philosophy
Neo-logicism (Scottish School)[1]
Main interests
 Philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language, modality
Notable ideas
 Neo-logicism, essentialist theory of modality[2]

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]

Work

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][5] In his book (Necessary Beings), he argues for an essentialist theory of necessity and possibility.[5]

Notable positions

Selected works

  • (1987) Abstract Objects. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.[7]
  • (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.[8]
  • (2013) "Necessary Beings: An Essay on Ontology, Modality, and the relations between them" Oxford: Oxford University Press.[9]

References

  1. ↑ st-andrews.ac.uk Archived 2006-12-24 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ Hale, Bob (2012), "What is absolute necessity?", Philosophia Scientiae, 16(2), 117–148.
  3. ↑ Memorial Notice for Bob Hale, Sheffield Department of Philosophy, 18 December 2017
  4. 1 2 "Bob Hale RIP (1945–2017)", 3:AM Magazine, 16 December 2017
  5. 1 2 3 "Profile: Bob Hale". Sheffield Department of Philosophy. Archived from the original on 21 September 2016.
  6. ↑ The Council, The Aristotelian Society, retrieved 2012-12-03.
  7. ↑ Reviews of Abstract Objects:
    • Williamson, Timothy (July 1988), Mind, 97 (387): 487–490, doi:10.1093/mind/xcvii.387.487, JSTOR 2255093
    • Freedman, David (October 1988), Philosophical Books, 29 (4): 214–217, doi:10.1111/j.1468-0149.1988.tb02079.x
    • Stahl, Gérold (January–March 1989), Revue philosophique de la France et de l'étranger, 179 (1): 109, JSTOR 41095963
    • Künne, Wolfgang (June 1989), Ratio, 2 (1): 89–100, doi:10.1111/j.1467-9329.1989.tb00129.x
    • Noonan, Harold W. (July 1989), The Philosophical Quarterly, 39 (156): 354, doi:10.2307/2220176
    • Sweet, Albert (September 1989), The Review of Metaphysics, 43 (1): 166–168, JSTOR 20128851
    • Burgess, John P. (April 1992), The Philosophical Review, 101 (2): 414, doi:10.2307/2185558
    • Hodes, Harold T. (1992), International Studies in Philosophy, 24 (3): 146–148, doi:10.5840/intstudphil1992243140
  8. ↑ Review of The Reason's Proper Study: Essays towards a Neo-Fregean Philosophy of Mathematics:
    • Uzquiano, Gabriel (June 2006), The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, 12 (2): 291–294, doi:10.1017/S1079898600002729, JSTOR 4617264, MR 2962442
  9. ↑ 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
    • Kürbis, Nils (May 2015), "Necessary beings by Bob Hale" (PDF), Disputatio, 7 (40): 92–100
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