Areas of Expertise

Philosophical, Mathematical, and Computational Logic
Philosophy of Science (especially Biology)
Philosophy of Mathematics
Philosophy of Language

Education

B.A. Honours (Cantab), 1971 (Mathematics Tripos Parts 1A and 1B and Philosophy Tripos Part II)
Ph.D. (Cantab), Wolfson College, Cambridge, 1975
Advanced Diploma in German, Goethe Institut, Grafing, 1979

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Neil Tennant

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Selected Publications

Books:

The Logic of Number, Oxford University Press, 2022. xvi + 363 pp.
Core Logic, Oxford University Press, 2017. xvii + 357 pp.
Introducing Philosophy: God, Mind, World and Logic, Routledge, 2015. xxii+433 pp.
Changes of Mind: An Essay on Rational Belief Revision, Oxford University Press, 2012. xviii+345 pp.
The Taming of The True, Oxford University Press, 1997. xvii+465 pp. Paperback edition 2002.
Autologic, Edinburgh University Press, 1992, xiii+239 pp.
Anti-Realism and Logic: Truth as Eternal, Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 1987, xii+325 pp.
Philosophy, Evolution and Human Nature (with F. von Schilcher), Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984, viii+283 pp. Here is a review by Francisco J. Ayala.
Natural Logic, Edinburgh University Press, 1978, ix+196pp.; Japanese translation by T. Fujimura for Orion Press, 1981; second, revised edition, 1990

Articles:

‘On the Adequacy of a Substructural Logic for Mathematics and Science’, The Philosophical Quarterly, 2022
‘What is a rule of inference?’, Review of Symbolic Logic, 2021. Online first:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755020320000441. Hard copy in Vol. 14, No. 2, June 2021, pp. 307-346
'Does Choice Really Imply Excluded Middle? Part I: Regimentation of the Goodman-Myhill result, and its immediate reception', Philosophia Mathematica, (III) Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 139-171
‘Does Choice Really Imply Excluded Middle? Part II: Historical, philosophical and foundational reflections on the Goodman-Myhill result’, Philosophia Mathematica, (III) Vol. 29, No. 1, 2020, pp. 28-63.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/philmat/nkaa010
‘A Logical Theory of Truthmakers and Falsitymakers’, in Michael Glanzberg, ed., Handbook of Truth, Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. 355–393
'A New Unified Account of Truth and Paradox', Mind 124, 2015, pp. 571-605
'The Relevance of Premises to Conclusions of Core Proofs', Review of Symbolic Logic, 8, no. 4, 2015, pp. 743-784, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1755020315000040
'Cut for Classical Core Logic', Review of Symbolic Logic, 8, no. 2, 2015, pp. 236-256 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1755020315000088
'Logic, Mathematics and the A Priori, Part I: A Problem for Realism', Philosophia Mathematica, 22, 2014, pp. 308-320. First published online May 9, 2014 doi:10.1093/philmat/nku006
'Logic, Mathematics and the A Priori, Part II: Core logic as analytic, and as the basis for Natural Logicism', Philosophia Mathematica, 22, 2014, pp. 321-344. First published online June 9, 2014 doi:10.1093/philmat/nku009
'The Logical Structure of Evolutionary Explanation and Prediction: Darwinism's Fundamental Schema', Biology and Philosophy, 29, no. 5, 2014, pp. 611-655. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10539-014-9444-0
'Aristotle's Syllogistic and Core Logic', History and Philosophy of Logic 35 no. 2, 2014, pp. 120-147. DOI 10.1080/01445340.2013.867144
'Mind, Mathematics and the Ignorabimusstreit', in British Journal for the History of Philosophy vol. 15, no. 4, 2007, pp. 745-773
'On the Degeneracy of the Full AGM-Theory of Theory-Revision', in Journal of Symbolic Logic, vol. 71, no. 2, 2006, pp. 661-676
'Deflationism and the Gödel-Phenomena', Mind, vol. 111, 443, July 2002, pp. 551-582.
'Deductive v. Expressive Power: A Pre-Gödelian Predicament', in Journal of Philosophy XCVII, no. 5, May 2000, pp. 257-277.