Generally speaking, I tend to think that whether a philosopher's views are true is a poor test of their quality. What matter are the arguments they give, and the insights those arguments inspire. — Richard F. Heck Copy Share Image
Intuitionists think that there are cases in which, say, some identity statement between real numbers is neither true nor false, even though we know… — Richard F. Heck Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, I tend to think that whether a philosopher's views are true is a poor test of their quality. What matter are the… — Richard F. Heck Copy Share Image
One of the central developments of 19th century mathematics involved a dramatic increase in the standards of mathematical rigor. This was for a variety… — Richard F. Heck Copy Share Image
To borrow from Mark Twain, I tend to think that reports of the death of supervaluationist approaches have been greatly exaggerated. The arguments that… — Richard F. Heck Copy Share Image
Many people who call themselves deflationists are deflationists about propositional truth but not about sentential truth. I only ever mention that view to distinguish… — Richard F. Heck Copy Share Image
One thing I really like about philosophy is that it's possible actually to do work in a wide range of different areas. I am… — Richard F. Heck Copy Share Image
