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Keith Eric George Simmons is an American philosopher and Professor of
Philosophy at
University of Connecticut
The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university in Storrs, Connecticut, a village in the town of Mansfield. The primary 4,400-acre (17.8 km2) campus is in Storrs, approximately a half hour's drive from H ...
. He is known for his works on
logic
Logic is the study of correct reasoning. It includes both formal and informal logic. Formal logic is the science of deductively valid inferences or of logical truths. It is a formal science investigating how conclusions follow from premis ...
and
philosophy of mind
Philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that studies the ontology and nature of the mind and its relationship with the body. The mind–body problem is a paradigmatic issue in philosophy of mind, although a number of other issues are ad ...
.
Books
*''Semantic Singularities: Paradoxes of Reference, Predication, and Truth'', Oxford University Press 2018
* ''Truth'' (Oxford Readings in Philosophy), edited with
Simon Blackburn
Simon Blackburn (born 12 July 1944) is an English academic philosopher known for his work in metaethics, where he defends quasi-realism, and in the philosophy of language; more recently, he has gained a large general audience from his effort ...
, Oxford University Press 1999
* ''Universality and the Liar: An Essay on Truth and the Diagonal Argument'', Cambridge University Press 1993
See also
*
Cantor's diagonal argument
In set theory, Cantor's diagonal argument, also called the diagonalisation argument, the diagonal slash argument, the anti-diagonal argument, the diagonal method, and Cantor's diagonalization proof, was published in 1891 by Georg Cantor as a ...
References
External links
Personal website
21st-century American philosophers
American philosophy academics
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
Living people
American logicians
Philosophers of mind
Philosophers of language
Alumni of University College London
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty
Alumni of Keele University
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Connecticut faculty
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