Neil Tennant (philosopher)

This article is about the philosopher. For the musician, see Neil Tennant.

Neil Tennant (born 1 March 1950, South Africa) is Humanities Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Ohio State University. Along with Michael Dummett, Crispin Wright, and a few others, Tennant is one of the most notable figures in the contemporary realism/anti-realism debate. He has also written extensively on intuitionistic logic and other non-classical logics.

Tennant is currently the editor of the journal American Philosophical Quarterly.

Education

• Advanced Diploma in German, Goethe Institut, Grafing, 1979
• Ph.D. (Cantab), Wolfson College, Cambridge, 1975
• B.A. Honours (Cantab), 1971 (Mathematics Tripos Parts 1A and 1B and Philosophy Tripos Part II)

Selected publications

• "New Foundations for a Relational Theory of Theory-Revision", Journal of Philosophical Logic, forthcoming.
• "On the Degeneracy of the Full AGM-Theory of Theory-Revision", in Journal of Symbolic Logic, vol. 71, no. 2, pp. 661–676.
• The Taming of the True, Oxford University Press, 1997, xvii+465 pp. Paperback edition 2002.
• Autologic, Edinburgh University Press, 1992, xiii+239 pp.
• Anti-Realism and Logic: Truth as Eternal, Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 1987, xii+325 pp.
• Philosophy, Evolution and Human Nature (with F. von Schilcher), Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984, viii+283 pp.
• Natural Logic, Edinburgh University Press, 1978, ix+196pp.; Japanese translation by T. Fujimura for Orion Press, 1981; second, revised edition, 1990.

See also

• American philosophy
• List of American philosophers

External links

• Academic home page