Neil Tennant
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Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor in Philosophy
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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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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.