Region Western Philosophy | Role Philosopher Name Bob Hale Influenced by Gottlob Frege | |
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Main interests Philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language, modality Notable ideas neo-Fregean philosophy of mathematics essentialist theory of modality Areas of interest Philosophy of language, Philosophy of mathematics, Modal logic Books The Reason's Proper Study, Reading Putnam, Abstract objects Similar People Crispin Wright, Gottlob Frege, Michael Dummett, Saul Kripke, G E Moore | ||
Schools of thought Analytic philosophy Philosophical era Contemporary philosophy | ||
Bob hale the basis of necessity and possibility
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.
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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. In his book (Necessary Beings), he argues for an essentialist theory of necessity and possibility.
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