David Liggins Explained

David Liggins is a philosopher at the University of Manchester with research interests in metaphysics and philosophy of mathematics.

Education and career

Liggins received his PhD in 2005 from the University of Sheffield. He then spent a year at University of Cambridge's faculty of philosophy before becoming a lecturer at the University of Manchester in 2006.^[1] In 2016, he was appointed joint editor of Analysis with Chris Daly.^[2] He served as the sole editor of the journal from 2017 to 2021 when it was announced that he would be joint editor alongside Stacie Friend and Lee Walters.^{[3] [4]}

Further reading

• Asay . Jamin . 2021-09-08 . Something is true . Philosophy and Phenomenological Research . 105 . 3 . en . 687–705 . 10.1111/phpr.12836 . 239634516 . 0031-8205.
• Baker . Alan . 2010 . No Reservations Required? Defending Anti-Nominalism . . en . 96 . 2 . 127–139 . 10.1007/s11225-010-9277-z . 8621517 . 0039-3215.
• Colyvan . M. . 2012 . Road Work Ahead: Heavy Machinery on the Easy Road . Mind . en . 121 . 484 . 1031–1046 . 10.1093/mind/fzt014 . 0026-4423.
• Dodd . Julian . A Minimalist Explanation of Truth's Asymmetry . 2018 . American Philosophical Quarterly . 55 . 4 . 389–404 . 10.2307/45128633 . 45128633 . 172090837 . 0003-0481. free .
• Freeman . David M. . 2022 . A Belief Expressionist Explanation of Divine Conceptualist Mathematics . . en . 23 . 1 . 15–26 . 10.1515/mp-2021-0011 . 237378464 . 1437-2053.
• Marcus . Russell . 2014 . The holistic presumptions of the indispensability argument . Synthese . en . 191 . 15 . 3575–3594 . 10.1007/s11229-014-0481-7 . 8245787 . 0039-7857.
• Plebani . Matteo . 2016 . Nominalistic content, grounding, and covering generalizations: Reply to 'Grounding and the indispensability argument' . Synthese . en . 193 . 2 . 549–558 . 10.1007/s11229-014-0428-z . 2318/1726657 . 31130369 . 0039-7857. free .
• Sjölin Wirling . Ylwa . 2022-03-05 . Neutrality and Force in Field's epistemological objection to platonism . Inquiry . en . 1–20 . 10.1080/0020174X.2022.2048689 . 247248170 . 0020-174X. free .
• Tallant . Jonathan . 2013-12-01 . Pretense, Mathematics, and Cognitive Neuroscience . The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science . en . 64 . 4 . 817–835 . 10.1093/bjps/axs013 . 0007-0882.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Researchers: Dr David Liggins . 2022-06-08 . The University of Manchester . en.
2. Web site: Weinberg . Justin . 2016-08-10 . Analysis (the Philosophy Journal) to Broaden Scope . 2022-06-08 . Daily Nous . en-US.
3. Web site: Leiter . Brian . 2021-02-26 . New editors of the journal "Analysis" announced . 2022-06-08 . Leiter Reports.
4. Web site: Weinberg . Justin . 2021-03-01 . New Editors at "Analysis" . 2022-06-08 . Daily Nous . en-US.