Claire Ortiz Hill
Claire Ortiz Hill was an American independent scholar, hermit, translator and author of books on phenomenological philosophy, specializing in the works of Edmund Husserl, the philosophy of logic and the philosophy of mathematics.
Life and education
Hill was from Santa Fe, New Mexico, where her ancestors have lived since the 17th century. Her mother, Adelina Ortiz de Hill 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.She 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. She also studied German in Leipzig and Halle.
Hill was a devout Catholic and lived as a diocesan hermit in the archdiocese of Paris. She died on December 4, 2025, at the age of 74.
Books
Hill's books include:- Word and Object in Husserl, Frege, and Russell: The Roots of Twentieth-Century Philosophy
- Rethinking Identity and Metaphysics: On the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy
- Husserl or Frege?: Meaning, Objectivity, and Mathematics
- The Roots and Flowers of Evil in Baudelaire, Nietzsche and Hitler
- Facing the Light: Ten Mystical Stories
- The Road Not Taken, On Husserl's Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics