Wilbur Dyre Hart (born 1943) is an American philosopher and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the

University of Illinois at Chicago The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is a public research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, adjacent to the Chicago Loop. The second campus established under the University of Illinois ...

. He taught at the

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from 1969 to 1974, the

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from 1974 to 1991, and the

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from 1992 to 1993. Hart is known for his research on

logic Logic is the study of correct reasoning. It includes both formal and informal logic. Formal logic is the science of deductively valid inferences or of logical truths. It is a formal science investigating how conclusions follow from premise ...

philosophy of mathematics The philosophy of mathematics is the branch of philosophy that studies the assumptions, foundations, and implications of mathematics. It aims to understand the nature and methods of mathematics, and find out the place of mathematics in peop ...

metaphysics Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that studies the fundamental nature of reality, the first principles of being, identity and change, space and time, causality, necessity, and possibility. It includes questions about the nature of conscio ...

, and

epistemology Epistemology (; ), or the theory of knowledge, is the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge. Epistemology is considered a major subfield of philosophy, along with other major subfields such as ethics, logic, and metaphysics. Epis ...

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

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21st-century American philosophers Philosophy academics Living people 1943 births American logicians Philosophers of mathematics Metaphysicians Epistemologists University of Illinois Chicago faculty Academics of University College London University of Michigan faculty University of New Mexico faculty Harvard University alumni {{US-philosopher-stub

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