Hartry Field

Hartry H. Field (born 1946) is a philosopher working at New York University (NYU). His first work was a commentary on Alfred Tarski's theory of truth, which he has worked on since 1972. In addition, in the 1980s, he started a project in the philosophy of mathematics discussing mathematical fictionalism, the doctrine that all mathematical statements are merely useful fictions, and shouldn't be taken to be literally true.