Jody Azzouni
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Jody Azzouni | |
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| Born | Jawad Azzouni 1954 (age 70–71) |
| Occupation(s) | Philosopher, poet |
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| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic |
| Institutions | Tufts University |
| Main interests | Metaphysics, meta-ontology, epistemology, philosophy of mathematics |
| Notable ideas | Quantifier neutralism,[1] object projectivism[1] |
Jody Azzouni (born Jawad Azzouni, 1954) is an American philosopher, poet, and writer. He is currently a professor of philosophy at Tufts University.
Education
[edit]He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in philosophy and a master's degree in mathematics from New York University and his PhD in philosophy from the City University of New York.
Philosophical work
[edit]Azzouni is currently working on the philosophy of mathematics, science, logic, language and in areas of metaphysics, meta-ontology, epistemology, and philosophy of mathematics. He 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
- 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.
- Ontology without Borders. Oxford University Press, 2017.
- 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)
References
[edit]- ^ a b Bohn, Einar (August 25, 2016). "Ontology Without Borders". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. University of Notre Dame. Retrieved August 6, 2025.
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