Horwich read Physics at Oxford,graduating in 1968,and earned his PhD in Philosophy from Cornell University in 1975 with a thesis on The Metric and Topology of Time,under the direction of Richard Boyd. He began his academic career at MIT,where he taught from 1973 until 1994,when he took up a post at University College London. He returned to the U.S. in 2000,to take up a chair at the CUNY Graduate Center. He moved to NYU in 2005.[1]
Philosophical work
In Truth (1990),Horwich presented a detailed defence of the minimalist 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.[2]
In the context of philosophical speculations about time travel,Horwich coined the term autofanticide for a variant of the grandfather paradox,in which a person goes back in time and deliberately or inadvertently kills their infant self.[3]
Books
Probability and Evidence (Cambridge University Press,1982)[4]
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)[5]
Reflections on Meaning (Oxford University Press,2005)
Truth—Meaning—Reality (Oxford University Press,2010)
Wittgenstein's Metaphilosophy (Oxford University Press,2012)
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