Jody Azzouni  Jody Azzouni (born Jawad Azzouni, 1954) is an American philosopher. He currently is Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. He received his bachelor's degree and master's degree from New York University and his PhD from the City University of New York. Azzouni is currently working on the philosophy of mathematics (he holds a degree in mathematics), science, logic, language and in areas of metaphysics, epistemology, and aesthetics. He acknowledges a debt to Willard Van Orman Quine. Azzouni is of the nominalist bent and has centered much of his philosophical efforts around defending nominalism.