Jody Azzouni Biography

Jody Azzouni (born Jawad Azzouni; born 1954) is an American philosopher, short fiction writer, and poet. He currently is Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University.
He received his bachelor's degree and master's degree from New York University and his PhD from the City University of New York
Azzouni is currently working on the philosophy of mathematics (he holds a degree in mathematics), science, logic, language and in areas of metaphysics, epistemology, and aesthetics. He acknowledges, as do many of his peers, a debt to the renowned philosopher, Willard Van Orman Quine. Azzouni is of the nominalist bent and has centered much of his philosophical efforts around defending nominalism.

One of his most distinctive positions is the as yet controversial claim that mathematical objects don't exist.