Jody Azzouni
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| Born | Jawad Azzouni 1954 (age 69–70) |
| Occupation(s) | poet, writer and professor of philosophy |
Jody Azzouni (born Jawad Azzouni, 1954) is an American philosopher, poet, and writer. He currently is Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University.
Education[edit]
He received his bachelor's degree and master's degree from New York University and his PhD from the City University of New York.
Philosophical work[edit]
Azzouni is currently working on the philosophy of mathematics (he holds a degree in mathematics), science, logic, language and in areas of metaphysics, epistemology, and aesthetics. He acknowledges a debt to Willard Van Orman Quine. Azzouni is of the nominalist school of thought and has centered much of his philosophical efforts around defending nominalism.
Books[edit]
- Metaphysical Myths, Mathematical Practice: The Ontology and Epistemology of the Exact Sciences Cambridge University Press, 1994.
- Knowledge and Reference in Empirical Science Routledge, 2000.
- Deflating Existential Consequence: A Case for Nominalism Oxford University Press 2004
- Reviews, Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, 10:4, Dec. 2004, p. 573-577; Philosophia Mathematica, 2009.
- Tracking Reason: Proof, Consequence and Truth. Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Talking About Nothing: Numbers, Hallucinations and Fictions. Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Semantic perception : how the illusion of a common language arises and persists. Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Review, Mind, 2016 link
- Ontology without Borders. Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Review, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews ejournal link
- The Rule-Following Paradox and its Implications for Metaphysics. Synthese Library Book. 2017
- Attributing Knowledge: What It Means to Know Something. Oxford University Press, 2020.
Poetry collections[edit]
Azzouni has published two collections of poetry with The Poets Press.
- The Lust for Blueprints, 1999 (rev. 2001)
- Hereafter Landscapes, 2010 (rev. 2019)
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