Claire Ortiz Hill

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]

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).

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