Bob Hale (philosopher)

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Bob Hale
Born 1945
Era Contemporary philosophy
Region Western Philosophy
School Analytic philosophy
Neo-logicism
Main interests
Philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language, modality
Notable ideas
Neo-logicism, essentialist theory of modality

Bob Hale, FRSE (born 1945), is a British philosopher, well known for his contributions to the development of the neo-Fregean (neo-logicist) philosophy of mathematics in collaboration with Crispin Wright, and for his works in modality and philosophy of language.

Work

Since 2006, he has been a professor of philosophy in the department of philosophy at the University of Sheffield. Prior to that, he taught in the University of Glasgow, the University of St. Andrews and the University of Lancaster.

Hale produced the first published neo-Fregean construction of the real numbers.[1] In his book (Necessary Beings), he argues for an essentialist theory of necessity and possibility.[2]

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