Juliet Floyd is professor of philosophy at Boston University.[1] Her strongest research interests lie in early analytic philosophy (on which she has edited a volume) and she has used early analytic philosophy as a lens to examine a diverse array of topics.
Floyd received a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Wellesley College in 1982,and went on to study at Harvard University,being awarded a doctorate in philosophy in 1990.[2]
After receiving her doctorate,Floyd accepted an appointment as assistant professor of philosophy at the City College of New York.[3] She spent a term as a visiting assistant professor of philosophy at Boston University in 1995 before accepting a permanent associate professorship of philosophy there in 1996.[3][bettersourceneeded] In 2003 she received cross-appointments in the Institute of Editorial Studies,the Institute for the Philosophy of Religion,and the Department of Philosophy.[3] She was promoted to full professor of philosophy in 2006.[3] Floyd has also spent time as a visiting professor of philosophy at the University of Vienna,Pantheon-Sorbonne University,and the Michel de Montaigne University Bordeaux 3.[3]
Floyd (in conjunction with Hilary Putnam) has suggested a novel reading of Wittgenstein's "notorious paragraph" in Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics dealing with Kurt Gödel's first incompleteness theorem,positing that Wittgenstein's understanding of the meaning of Gödel's first theorem was far greater than has been commonly believed,although this reading has been criticized.[5] Floyd and Putnam have also more generally defended Wittgenstein's Remarks as demonstrating significantly greater understanding of mathematics than he is generally credited with.[6]
Publications
Floyd has written many peer-reviewed papers,and has served as editor for several series,primarily about analytic philosophy.[4] She has served as the editor of one volume,Future Pasts:The Analytic Tradition in Twentieth Century Philosophy,a collection of essays related to Burton Dreben's belief that analytic philosophy was a failed effort to bring to philosophy the level of clarity offered by science,and his further belief that it was most important because of its failure to do so.[7] In 2013 she was working on a manuscript that explores the significance of the interactions between Wittgenstein,Gödel,and Alan Turing,and was co-editing a volume of essays on Turing's philosophical importance.[4]
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