Jody Azzouni

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Jody Azzouni (born Jawad Azzouni, 1954) is an American philosopher, poet, and writer. He is currently a professor of philosophy at Tufts University.

He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in philosophy and a master's degree in mathematics from New York University and his PhD in philosophy from the City University of New York.

Azzouni is currently working on the philosophy of mathematics, science, logic, language and in areas of metaphysics, meta-ontology, epistemology, and philosophy of mathematics. He is of the nominalist school of thought and has centered much of his philosophical efforts around defending nominalism.

• Metaphysical Myths, Mathematical Practice: The Ontology and Epistemology of the Exact Sciences Cambridge University Press, 1994.
• Knowledge and Reference in Empirical Science, Routledge, 2000.
• Deflating Existential Consequence: A Case for Nominalism Oxford University Press, 2004
• Tracking Reason: Proof, Consequence and Truth. Oxford University Press, 2005.
• Talking About Nothing: Numbers, Hallucinations and Fictions. Oxford University Press, 2010.
• Semantic perception: how the illusion of a common language arises and persists. Oxford University Press, 2013.
• Ontology without Borders. Oxford University Press, 2017.
• The Rule-Following Paradox and its Implications for Metaphysics. Synthese Library Book. 2017
• Attributing Knowledge: What It Means to Know Something. Oxford University Press, 2020.

Azzouni has published two collections of poetry with The Poets Press:

• The Lust for Blueprints, 1999 (rev. 2001)
• Hereafter Landscapes, 2010 (rev. 2019)

• Jody Azzouni's personal website
• Faculty profile page

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