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Richard Boyd

Richard Boyd

American philosopher
Richard Newell Boyd was an American philosopher, who spent most of his career teaching philosophy at Cornell University where he was Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy and Humane Letters Emeritus. He specialized in epistemology, the... Wikipedia
Born: May 19, 1942, Washington, D.C.
Died: February 20, 2021 (age 78 years), Cleveland, OH
Doctoral students: Paul Horwich, J. D. Trout
Education: MIT
Notable ideas: Causal theory of reference-fixing for theoretical terms, definition of biological natural kinds