Edward N. Zalta

Edward N. Zalta
Edward N. Zalta
	Zalta speaking at the Wikimania 2015
Born	Edward Nouri Zalta; March 16, 1952
Education	Rice University (BA); University of Massachusetts Amherst (PhD);
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy; Mathematical platonism; Neo-logicism (Stanford–Edmonton School); Mathematical structuralism (abstract variety);
Institutions	University of Auckland; Rice University; University of Salzburg; CSLI, Stanford University;
Thesis	An Introduction to a Theory of Abstract Objects (1981)
Doctoral advisor	Terence Parsons
Notable ideas	Abstract object theory, exemplifying and encoding a property as two modes of predication, Platonized naturalism, computational metaphysics

Edward Nouri Zalta (/ˈzɔːltə/; born March 16, 1952) is an American philosopher who is a senior research scholar at the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University. He received his BA from Rice University in 1975 and his PhD from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1981, both in philosophy. Zalta has taught courses at Stanford University, Rice University, the University of Salzburg, and the University of Auckland. Zalta is also the Principal Editor of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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