Hartry Field

Hartry Field is Silver Professor, and University Professor, at New York University, where he has taught since 1997.  Before that he taught at Princeton, University of Southern California, and the CUNY Graduate Center.  He is author of Science Without Numbers (1980; expanded edition 2016) and Saving Truth From Paradox, as well as numerous articles in the philosophy of mathematics and of logic, and in other areas of philosophy such as metaphysics, epistemology and philosophy of language.  Science Without Numbers defended the view that one can develop physics without assuming the existence of mathematical entities, but since the early 1990’s Field’s work in philosophy of mathematics has been focused less on the existence of mathematical entities and more on the objectivity of mathematics.