Education
Horwich earned his Doctor of Philosophy from Cornell University. His thesis advisor was Richard Boyd (title of the doctoral thesis: The Metric and Topology of Time).
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Horwich earned his Doctor of Philosophy from Cornell University. His thesis advisor was Richard Boyd (title of the doctoral thesis: The Metric and Topology of Time).
He has previously taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University College London, and City University of New York Graduate Center. In Truth (1990), Horwich presented a detailed defence of the minimalistic variant of the deflationary theory of truth. Other concepts he has advanced are a probabilistic account of scientific methodology and a unified explanation of temporally asymmetric phenomena.
In the context of philosophical speculations about time travel, Horwich coined the term autoinfanticide to describe a scenario, depicting a variant of the grandfather paradox, in which a person goes back in time and deliberately or inadvertently kills his or her infant self, although he malformed the word as "autofanticide".
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.
