{"id":7065,"date":"2020-09-22T10:38:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T14:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=7065"},"modified":"2026-01-12T10:49:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:49:21","slug":"peter-hylton","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/profile\/peter-hylton\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Hylton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span>Peter Hylton<\/span><\/strong><span>\u00a0is Research Professor of Philosophy (he is also <\/span><i>emeritus <\/i><span>Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago). He received his PhD in Philosophy from Harvard University. His chief area of interest is in understanding, interpreting, and coming to terms with the history of analytic philosophy. He has been awarded fellowships by the Rockefeller Foundation, the A.C.L.S., and the NEH. He has published\u00a0<\/span><em><span>Russell, Idealism, and the Emergence of Analytic Philosophy<\/span><\/em><span>\u00a0(Oxford University Press, 1990) and\u00a0<\/span><em><span>Quine<\/span><\/em><span>\u00a0(Routledge, 2007); he has also published numerous essays of analytic philosophy, some of which are collected in\u00a0<\/span><em><span>Propositions, Functions, and Analysis<\/span><\/em><span>\u00a0(Oxford University Press, 2005).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3174,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/7065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3174"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/7065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7489,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/7065\/revisions\/7489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}