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Paul Horwich (born 1947) is a British analytic philosopher at New York University, whose work includes writings on causality and philosophy of science and philosophy of physics, the philosophy of language (especially truth, and meaning) and Wittgenstein's later philosophy. Horwich earned his PhD from Cornell University; his thesis advisor was Richard Boyd (title of the doctoral thesis: ''The Metric and Topology of Time''). He has previously taught at MIT, University College London, and CUNY Graduate Center.〔http://philosophy.fas.nyu.edu/docs/IO/1515/CV-Horwich.pdf〕 In ''Truth'' (1990), Horwich presented a detailed defence of the ''minimalistic'' variant of the deflationary theory of truth. He is opposed to appealing to reference and truth to explicate meaning, and so has defended a naturalistic ''use theory'' of meaning in his book ''Meaning''. Other concepts he has advanced are a probabilistic account of scientific methodology and a unified explanation of temporally asymmetric phenomena.〔(No 3rd party source for this )〕 In the context of philosophical speculations about time travel, Horwich coined the term autoinfanticide to describe a scenario, depicting a variant of the grandfather paradox, in which a person goes back in time and deliberately or inadvertently kills his or her infant self, although he malformed the word as "autofanticide". ==Books== * ''Probability and Evidence'' (Cambridge University Press, 1982) * ''Asymmetries in Time'' (MIT Press, Bradford Books, 1987) * ''Truth'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990; 2nd edn. 1998) * ''Meaning'' (Oxford University Press, 1998) * ''From a Deflationary Point of View'' (Oxford University Press, 2004)〔(Review of "From a Deflationary Point of View" ), accessed January 2011〕 * ''Reflections on Meaning'' (Oxford University Press, 2005) * ''Truth-Meaning-Reality'' (Oxford University Press, 2010) * ''Wittgenstein's Metaphilosophy'' (Oxford University Press, 2012) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul Horwich」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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