Richard Boyd

Richard Newell Boyd (born 19 May 1942, Washington, D.C.) is an American philosopher.

Biography

Boyd earned his Ph.D. from MIT in 1970.

Then he spent most of his career at Cornell University,[1] though he also taught briefly at Harvard University, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the University of California, Berkeley. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, and the University of Melbourne in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

His co-edited book The Philosophy of Science ( ISBN 0-262-52156-3) is used in undergraduate and graduate philosophy courses. Boyd's doctoral thesis, directed by Hilary Putnam, is called "A recursion-theoretic characterization of the ramified analytical hierarchy".

He is best known for his arguments in favor of scientific realism[2] and moral realism.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Philosophers Zone: Objective truth". ABC Online. 9 August 2008. Retrieved 25 September 2011.
  2. ↑ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-realism/
  3. ↑ http://philpapers.org/rec/BOYHTB


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