Alexander George (philosopher)

Alexander George is an American philosopher with research interests mainly in the philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of language. He is also a chess composer.

Philosophy

Alexander George teaches at Amherst College. He received in 1979 in Columbia with a Bachelor of Arts and the Harvard University in 1981 the title of a teacher of the liberal arts and 1986 doctoral degrees. He was appointed an honorary member at Amherst College Master of Arts in 2001.

George founded the site askphilosophers.com, from the internationally successful book What would Socrates say? ( German title: What is the opposite of a lion? ) emerged. The website makes it possible to judge philosophical questions to professors. He also wrote a book about philosophy in mathematics and gave out at least two more books.

Chess composition

Alexander George composed mainly retro analytical tasks. He founded an Internet forum for chess composition.

Works (selection)

  • With Daniel J. Velleman: Philosophies of Mathematics, Basil Blackwell 2002
  • " Skolem and the Löwenheim - Skolem Theorem: A Case Study of The Philosophical Significance of Mathematical Results, " History and Philosophy of Logic, 6, 1985, 75-89
  • " Whence and Whither the Debate in between Quine and Chomsky? , " The Journal of Philosophy, September 1986 489-500
  • "The imprecision of Impredicativity, " Mind, October 1987, 514-18
  • "The Conveyability of Intuitionism, in Essay on Mathematical Cognition, " The Journal of Philosophical Logic, 17, 1988, 133-56
  • "Whose Language Is It Anyway: Some Notes on Idiolects, " The Philosophical Quarterly, July 1990, 275-298
  • "How Not To Refute Realism, " The Journal of Philosophy, March 1993, 53-72
  • " Intuitionism and the Poverty of the Inference argument, " Topoi, 13, 1994, 79-82
  • "Has Dummett Over Alted His Frege: Remarks on the Conveyability of Thought, " in Richard G. Heck, Jnr. (editor), Realism, Thought, and Language: Essays in Honour of Michael Dummett, Oxford University Press, 1997, 35-69
  • "A Proof of Induction? , " Philosophers ' Imprint, Volume 7, Number 2, March 2007, 1-5

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