Jody Azzouni
Jody Azzouni is an American philosopher. He currently is Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University.Education
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
Azzouni is currently working on the philosophy of 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 bent and has centered much of his philosophical efforts around defending nominalism.Books
- 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, 2006.
- 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
- Ontology without Borders. Oxford University Press, 2019.
- **Review, Notre Dame Phioloophical Reviews''
