Jody Azzouni

He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in philosophy and a master's degree in mathematics from New York University and his PhD in philosophy from the City University of New York. ==Philosophical work==

Azzouni is currently working on the philosophy of mathematics, science, logic, language and in areas of metaphysics, meta-ontology, epistemology, and philosophy of mathematics. He is of the nominalist school of thought and has centered much of his philosophical efforts around defending nominalism. ==Books==

• Metaphysical Myths, Mathematical Practice: The Ontology and Epistemology of the Exact Sciences Cambridge University Press, 1994. • Knowledge and Reference in Empirical Science, Routledge, 2000. • Deflating Existential Consequence: A Case for Nominalism Oxford University Press, 2004 • Tracking Reason: Proof, Consequence and Truth. Oxford University Press, 2005. • Talking About Nothing: Numbers, Hallucinations and Fictions. Oxford University Press, 2010. • Semantic perception: how the illusion of a common language arises and persists. Oxford University Press, 2013. • Ontology without Borders. Oxford University Press, 2017. • The Rule-Following Paradox and its Implications for Metaphysics. Synthese Library Book. 2017 • Attributing Knowledge: What It Means to Know Something. Oxford University Press, 2020. ==Poetry collections ==

Azzouni has published two collections of poetry with The Poets Press: • The Lust for Blueprints, 1999 (rev. 2001) • Hereafter Landscapes, 2010 (rev. 2019) ==References==