Alexander George

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

philosophy

Alexander George teaches at Amherst College . He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia in 1979 and a liberal arts teacher from Harvard University in 1981 and a PhD in 1986 . In 2001, he received an honorary Master of Arts from Amherst College .

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

Chess composition

Alexander George mainly composes retro-analytical tasks. He founded an internet forum for chess composition.

Works (selection)

• with Daniel J. Velleman: Philosophies of Mathematics , Basil Blackwell 2002
• "Skølem and the Löwenheim-Skølem 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 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, an 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 Oversalted His Frege ?: Remarks on the Conveyability of Thought," in Richard G. Heck, Jnr. (editor), Realism, Thought, and Language: Essays in Honor of Michael Dummett, Oxford University Press, 1997, 35-69
• "On Washing the Fur Without Wetting It: Quine, Carnap, and Analyticity," Mind, January 2000, 1-24
• "A Proof of Induction ?," Philosophers' Imprint, Volume 7, Number 2, March 2007, 1-5

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• Profile at Amherst College