Paul Horwich
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Paul Horwich (born 1947) is a British analytic philosopher at New York University, whose work includes writings on causality, truth, and meaning. Horwich earned his PhD from Cornell University; his thesis advisor was Richard Boyd. He has previously taught at MIT, University College London, and CUNY Graduate Center. His works include Truth (1990), which presented a detailed defense of the minimalistic variant of the deflationary theory of truth. He is opposed to appealing to reference and truth to explicate meaning, and so has defended a use theory of meaning in his book Meaning. In the context of philosophical speculations about time travel, Horwich coined the term autoinfanticide to describe a scenario, depicting a variant of the grandfather paradox, in which a person goes back in time and deliberately or inadvertently kills his or her infant self, although he malformed the word as "autofanticide".
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