Sanford Shieh

Short Biography

Sanford Shieh works primarily in philosophy of logic and mathematics, and the history of analytic philosophy. His writings center on three topics: the clarification and criticism of arguments against classical logic and mathematics based on anti-realism in the theory of meaning, the interpretation of Frege's logic and metaphysics, and the logic and metaphysics of modality in twentieth-century analytic philosophy. His articles have appeared in such journals as Synthese, Philosophia Mathematica, and Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. He is co-editor, with Juliet Floyd, of Future Pasts: The Analytic Tradition in Twentieth-Century Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2000), with Alice Crary, of Reading Cavell (Routlege, 2006), and editor of The Limits of Logical Empiricism (Kluwer, 2006). At present he is working on a conceptual history of the development of modal logic from C. I. Lewis to Saul Kripke, forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Shieh received an A.B. from Cornell University, a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Oxford, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University.