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Shieh, Sanford

Associate Professor of Philosophy
Philosophy Department
860.685.3646

AB Cornell University
BA Oxford University
BA Cornell University
PHD Harvard University

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AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

philosophy of logic
history of analytic philosophy
philosophy of mathematics
philosophy of language

I am also interested in and teach:
mathematical logic
epistemology
metaphysics
history of early modern European philosophy

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

I am currently intermittently working on two projects. One is the question of the compatibility of the notion of intuition and logicism in the epistemology of mathematics. The other is a conceptual history of the notion of necessity in early analytic philosophy.

OFFICE HOURS:

Thurs afternoons by appointment