Career
Since 2006, he has been a professor of philosophy in the department of philosophy at the University of Sheffield. Prior to that, he taught in the University of Glasgow, the University of Saint Andrews and the University of Lancaster. Hale produced the first published neo-Fregean construction of the real numbers.
In his book (Necessary Beings), he argues for an essentialist theory of necessity and possibility
British Academy Research Reader (1997-1999)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (from 2000)
President of the Aristotelian Society (2002-2003)
Leverhulme Senior Research Fellow (2009-2011).
