Faculty • Department of Philosophy at Boston University

Juliet Floyd
Professor of Philosophy
Office: STH 503
E-mail: jfloyd@bu.edu
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University, B.A., Wellesley College
Interests: History and Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics, Philosophy of Language, Epistemology, History of Early Analytic Philosophy, Wittgenstein, Kant, Aesthetics
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Professor Floyd taught at the City College of New York and the Graduate Center, City University of New York before joining the faculty at Boston University in 1996. She has been a Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Vienna and the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, and is on leave during the 2009-2010 academic year as a Fellow of the Lichtenberg-Kolleg an institute of advanced study at the Georg August University, Göttingen. She has received grants from the American Academy in Berlin, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Fulbright Association, the Dibner Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science at MIT, the American Philosophical Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the C.U.N.Y. Research Foundation, and Wellesley College. Her research interests include the history of analytic philosophy, Kant, the philosophy of logic and mathematics, philosophy of language, and aesthetics.

Professor Floyd has co-edited (with S. Shieh) Future Pasts: The Analytic Tradition in Twentieth Century Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2001; on line version 2004) and authored many articles. She is currently working on a manuscript treating the impact on Wittgenstein in the mid-1930s of Turing’s and Gödel’s undecidability and incompleteness results.

Selected Recent Works:

• “Rawls's Restatement of Justice as Fairness: An Introductory Overview”, in K. Dethloff, N. Charlotte, R. Staubmann, and A. Weiberg, Hgs., Humane Existenz. Reflexionen zur Ethik in einer pluralistischen Gesellschaft (Berlin: Parerga, 2007), pp. 17-35. [pdf]

• “Wittgenstein and the Inexpressible” in A. Crary, ed., Wittgenstein and the Moral Life: Essays in Honor of Cora Diamond (MIT Press, 2007), pp. 177-234. [pdf]

• “Wittgenstein über das Überraschende in der Mathematik”, trans. Joachim Schulte, in M. Kross, Hsg., <<Ein Netz von Normen>> Ludwig Wittgenstein und die Mathematik (Berlin: Parerga Verlag, 2008), pp. 41-77. [pdf]

• „Wittgensteins ‚berüchtigter’ Paragraph über das Gödel-Theorem: Neuere Diskussionen“ (with Hilary Putnam), in Prosa oder Besweis? Wittgensteins ›berüchtigte‹ Bemerkungen zu Gödel, Texte und Dokumente, Esther Ramharter hrsg., (Berlin: Parerga Verlag, 2008), pp. 75-97.

• “On Being Surprised: Wittgenstein on Aspect Perception, Logic and Mathematics”, in V. Krebs and W. Day, eds., Seeing Wittgenstein Anew: New Essays on Aspect Seeing (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) [pdf]

• Editorial preface to translation into English of “Gottlob Frege, Letters to Ludwig Wittgenstein”, in E. De Pellegrin, ed., Successor and Friend: Georg Henrik von Wright and Ludwig Wittgenstein (Springer Verlag, forthcoming) [pdf]

• Translation into English of “Gottlob Frege, Letters to Ludwig Wittgenstein” (with Burton Dreben) in E. De Pellegrin, ed., Successor and Friend: Georg Henrik von Wright and Ludwig Wittgenstein (Springer Verlag, forthcoming) [pdf]

• “The Frege-Wittgenstein Correspondence: Interpretive Themes”, in E. De Pellegrin, ed., Successor and Friend: Georg Henrik von Wright and Ludwig Wittgenstein (Springer Verlag, forthcoming) [pdf]

• “Recent Themes in the History of Early Analytic Philosophy”, for “Current Scholarship” series in The Journal of the History of Philosophy, 47, 2, April 2009: 157-200 [pdf]