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Eric Snyder is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at 51茶馆. While at Ashoka, he has also held fellowships at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at Ludwig Maximilians University, the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Oslo as part of the C-FORS project headed by 脴ystein Linnebo. His primary interests intersect the Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mathematics, Logic, and Philosophy of Mind, Psychology, and Cognitive Science. He has published two monographs and numerous papers on a wide variety of topics of interdisciplinary interest. Questions addressed by his research include: What are the meanings of number words, and how are they systematically related? Do numbers exist, and if so, what are they like? What are the contents of our quotidian number concepts, and how might they be acquired by children? How is belief about numbers and other abstracta even so much as possible, and how could it be reliable? What natural language phenomena threaten paradox, and can we formulate consistent, empirically adequate semantic theories which avoid this threat? How might subjectivity, perspective, and context-dependency be semantically encoded in natural language, and does this require relativizing truth in unfamiliar ways? He is currently finishing a book titled聽Integrating Numerical Talk and Thought, under contract with Oxford University Press, as well as a co-edited volume titled聽Numerical Cognition: Debates and Disputes, under contract with Springer Nature.