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Claire Ortiz Hill (born 1951)[1] is an American independent scholar, hermit, translator, and author of books on analytic philosophy, specializing in the works of Edmund Husserl, the philosophy of logic, and the philosophy of mathematics.

Life and education

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Hill is from Santa Fe, New Mexico, where her ancestors have lived since the 17th century.[2] Her mother, Adelina Ortiz de Hill (1929–2014) was a fiesta and rodeo queen, nurse, author, and local historian, named as a "Santa Fe Living Treasure" in 2011. Her father, Milford Hill, worked as an employment counselor.[3]

Hill earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of California, Riverside, and a second master's degree and doctorate from Paris-Sorbonne University.[4][5] She has also studied German in Leipzig and Halle.[5]

She lives as a hermit in France, affiliated with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Paris.[5]

Books

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Hill's books include:

  • Word and Object in Husserl, Frege, and Russell: The Roots of Twentieth-Century Philosophy (Ohio University Press, 1991)[6]
  • Rethinking Identity and Metaphysics: On the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy (Yale University Press, 1997)[7]
  • Husserl or Frege?: Meaning, Objectivity, and Mathematics (with Guillermo E. Rosado Haddock, Open Court, 2000)[8]
  • The Roots and Flowers of Evil in Baudelaire, Nietzsche and Hitler (Open Court, 2006)[9]
  • Facing the Light: Ten Mystical Stories (with Jacqueline Wegmann, Lone Butte Press, 2010)
  • The Road Not Taken, On Husserl's Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics (with Jairo José da Silva, College Publications, 2013)[10]

She is also the translator from German into English of Husserl's Introduction to Logic and Theory of Knowledge: Lectures 1906/07 (Springer, 2008)[11] and Logic and General Theory of Science (Springer, 2019), and the translator from English into French of Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka's The Fullness of the Logos in the Key of Life (as La Plénitude du Logos dans le registre de la vie, L'Harmattan, 2011).

References

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  1. ^ Birth year from German National Library catalog, retrieved 2021-02-08
  2. ^ Author biography of Adelina Ortiz de Hill from Sol, Sombra Y La Tierra (Professional Press, 2004)
  3. ^ Krasnow, Bruce (31 October 2014), "Adelina Ortiz de Hill, 1929-2014: Living Treasure launched online site for stories of native Santa Feans", Santa Fe New Mexican
  4. ^ Author biography from Logic and General Theory of Science (Springer, 2019)
  5. ^ a b c Claire Ortiz Hill, French National Library, retrieved 2021-02-08
  6. ^ Reviews of Word and Object in Husserl, Frege, and Russell:
  7. ^ Reviews of Rethinking Identity and Metaphysics:
  8. ^ Reviews of Husserl or Frege?:
  9. ^ Review of The Roots and Flowers of Evil in Baudelaire, Nietzsche and Hitler:
  10. ^ Reviews of The Road Not Taken:
  11. ^ Review of Introduction to Logic and Theory of Knowledge:
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