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Shieh, Sanford


Associate Professor of Philosophy
Philosophy Department
860.685.3646








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

EMAIL:

sshieh@wesleyan.edu

COURSES TAUGHT:

PHIL230 - 01
PHIL289 - 01

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:

Wed afternoons by appointment