Neil Tennant (born 1 March 1950) is an American philosopher. He is Arts & Humanities Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the

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; and, before taking up his appointment at the Ohio State University he held positions at the

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, and the

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. Along with

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, Tennant is one of the most notable figures who have attempted to extend the project of providing anti-realist semantics for empirical language. He has also written extensively on

intuitionistic logic Intuitionistic logic, sometimes more generally called constructive logic, refers to systems of symbolic logic that differ from the systems used for classical logic by more closely mirroring the notion of constructive proof. In particular, systems ...

and other

non-classical logic Non-classical logics (and sometimes alternative logics) are formal systems that differ in a significant way from standard logical systems such as propositional and predicate logic. There are several ways in which this is done, including by way of ...

Education and career

Tennant was the editor of the journal ''

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'' from 2004 to 2007. He was elected to the

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, as a Corresponding Fellow, in 1990.templeton.org
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Selected publications

* ''Natural Logic'', Edinburgh University Press, 1978, ix+196pp.; Japanese translation by T. Fujimura for Orion Press, 1981; second, revised edition, 1990. * ''Philosophy, Evolution and Human Nature'' (with F. von Schilcher), Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984, viii+283 pp. * ''Anti-Realism and Logic: Truth as Eternal'', Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 1987, xii+325 pp. * ''Autologic'', Edinburgh University Press, 1992, xiii+239 pp. * ''The Taming of the True'',

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, 1997, xvii+465 pp. Paperback edition 2002. * "On the Degeneracy of the Full AGM-Theory of Theory-Revision", ''Journal of Symbolic Logic'', vol. 71, no. 2, pp. 661–676, June 2006. * "New Foundations for a Relational Theory of Theory-Revision", ''Journal of Philosophical Logic'', vol. 35, no. 5, pp. 489–52, October 2006. * ''Introducing Philosophy: God, Mind, World, and Logic'', Routledge, 2015. * ''Core Logic'', Oxford University Press, 2017.

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