Bob Hale (philosopher)

Bob Hale
Born1945
Died (aged 72)
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic philosophy
Neo-logicism (Scottish School)[1]
Main interests
Philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language, modality
Notable ideas
Neo-logicism, essentialist theory of modality[2]

Bob Hale, FRSE (1945 – 12 December 2017)[3] was a British philosopher, known for his contributions to the development of the neo-Fregean (neo-logicist) philosophy of mathematics in collaboration with Crispin Wright, and for his works in modality and philosophy of language.[4]

  1. ^ st-andrews.ac.uk Archived 2006-12-24 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Hale, Bob (2012), "What is absolute necessity?", Philosophia Scientiae, 16(2), 117–148.
  3. ^ Memorial Notice for Bob Hale, Sheffield Department of Philosophy, 18 December 2017
  4. ^ "Bob Hale RIP (1945–2017)", 3:AM Magazine, 16 December 2017