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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Before coming to Boston University in 1996 Professor Floyd taught at the City College of New York and the City University of New York Graduate Center, where she also served as Deputy Executive Director of the Graduate Program in Philosophy. She was appointed Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna in the spring of 2007, where she taught Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations and a seminar on the works of Cavell, Putnam and Travis. She is on leave as a Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin in the fall of 2008.

Professor Floyd has received several fellowships and awards, among them 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.

The author of many articles, 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). 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. [unpublished English Version posted here; comments welcome] [pdf]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. [unpublished English version here, comments welcome; updated reply to Timothy Bays‘ article on an earlier “Note“ by Putnam and I on Wittgenstein in The Journal of Philosophy] [pdf]

• “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 (forthcoming, April 2009) [pdf]