Truth, Reference and Realism

About the Authors

about the authors Zsolt Novák has recently obtained his Ph.d. from the university of leiden and from central european university for his thesis book a Priori Truth in the Natural World: A Non-Referentialist Response to Benacerraf’s Dilemma (2010). he is the co-editor of Ész, Természet, Történelem (2002). his research interest falls within the confines of the philosophy of language, metaphysics and epistemology. ANdrás simoNyi is research fellow at the applied logic laboratory, Budapest. his main areas of research interest are semantics, formal ontologies and philosophy of mathematics. dANiel isAAcsoN is university lecturer in the Philosophy of mathematics at Oxford university and fellow of Wolfson college, Oxford. he has held academic appointments at the university of Washington and the rockefeller university, and a visiting appointment at the university of california at Berkeley. NeNAd miščević is presently Professor of Philosophy at the Philosophy department of the university of maribor, slovenia and recurrent Visiting Professor at central european university, Budapest. he is the author of a series of papers on intuitions and of several books, two in english, one on rationality and cognition published in Toronto, and another by ceu Press. iAN rumfitt is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck college, university of london; he previously taught at the universities of Oxford and michigan (ann arbor). he has published on philosophical logic , the philosophy of language, and the history of analytic philosophy i4 Truth.indb 263 2011.08.15. 8:57 264 about the authors (especially frege). a monograph on the philosophy of logic is forthcoming from Oxford university Press. timothy WilliAmsoN is Wykeham Professor of logic at Oxford university . his books include Identity and Discrimination (1990), Vagueness (1994), Knowledge and its Limits (2000) and The Philosophy of Philosophy (2007). he is a fellow of the British academy and a foreign honorary member of the american academy of arts and sciences. rAlph WedgWood is a Professor of Philosophy at Oxford university and a fellow of merton college, Oxford. he is the author of The Nature of Normativity (2007), and of numerous articles on ethics (especially metaethics, but also normative ethics and the history of ethics), on epistemology, and on the theory of rational choice. hoWArd robiNsoN is university Professor in the department of Philosophy at central european university, honorary Visiting Professor at the university of York and an honorary fellow of the department of Philosophy at liverpool university. he has published mainly on the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of perception, idealism and the history of philosophy. i4 Truth.indb 264 2011.08.15. 8:57 ...