Biography and CV



Here is a biography for talk announcements etc:
John Horty is a Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland, with affiliate appointments in the Computer Science Department and the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. His interests include philosophical logic, logic and artificial intelligence, ethics, epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of law. Horty is the author of Agency and Deontic Logic (Oxford, 2001), Frege on Definitions (Oxford, 2007), Reasons as Defaults (Oxford, 2012), The Logic of Precedent (Cambridge, 2025), and a variety of papers in logic, philosophy, and computer science. His work has been supported by several fellowships from the National Endowment for Humanities and grants from the National Science Foundation, by visiting fellowships at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies and at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and by a Humboldt Research Award.

Here is a curriculum vitae

In addition ...

Here is a Google scholar page

Here is an old Reasoner interview

And most important, my Erdös number is 3
(Two routes: Belnap to Spencer to Erdös, Kraus to Magidor to Erdös)