Neil Tennant (philosopher)

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

Neil Tennant (born 1 March 1950) 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. [1] [2] He has also written extensively on intuitionistic logic and other non-classical logics.

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

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)

[edit] 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.