W. D. Hart Explained

Region:	Western philosophy
Era:	21st-century philosophy
Wilbur Dyre Hart III
School Tradition:	Analytic
Institutions:	University of Illinois at Chicago
Main Interests:	Logic, philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics, and epistemology
Thesis Title:	Wittgenstein, Philosophy, Logic and Mathematics
Thesis Year:	1969
Doctoral Advisor:	Burton Dreben, Stanley Cavell
Doctoral Students:	Ziya Movahed
Education:	Harvard University (PhD)

Wilbur Dyre Hart (born 1943) is an American philosopher and professor emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He taught at the University of Michigan from 1969 to 1974, the University College London from 1974 to 1991, and the University of New Mexico from 1992 to 1993.^[1] Hart is known for his research on logic, philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics, and epistemology.^{[2] [3]}

Hart has defended substance dualism.^[4]

Books

• The Engines of the Soul, Cambridge University Press, 1988
• The Evolution of Logic, Cambridge University Press, 2010
• Hart, W.D. (ed., 1996), The Philosophy of Mathematics, Oxford University Press

See also

• Philosophical Essays on Freud
• Fitch's paradox of knowability

Notes and References

1. Web site: Hart, W.D. . University of Illinois at Chicago.
2. Boër . Steven . Review of The Engines of the Soul . Noûs . 1991 . 25 . 4 . 561–566 . 10.2307/2216079 . 2216079 . 0029-4624.
3. Hale . Bob . Review: W. D. Hart, The Philosophy of Mathematics . Journal of Symbolic Logic . September 1998 . 63 . 3 . 1180–1183 . 10.2307/2586733 . 2586733 . EN . 0022-4812.
4. Boër, Steven. 1991. Reviewed Work: The Engines of the Soul. W. D. Hart. Noûs. 25. 4. 561–566. 10.2307/2216079.