John Patton Burgess (born 5 June 1948) is an American philosopher. He is John N. Woodhull Professor of
Philosophy
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at
Princeton University
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where he specializes in
logic and
philosophy of mathematics.
Education and career
Burgess received his Ph.D. from the
University of California, Berkeley's Group in Logic and Methodology of Science. His interests include
logic,
philosophy of mathematics and
metaethics. He is the author of numerous articles on
logic and
philosophy of mathematics. In 2012, he was elected a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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.
He is the brother of
Barbara Burgess.
Selected publications
* 1997. ''A Subject with No Object: Strategies for Nominalistic Reconstrual of Mathematics'' (with
Gideon Rosen),
Oxford University Press
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.
* 2005. ''Fixing Frege'',
Princeton University Press.
* 2007. ''Computability and Logic'' (with
George Boolos and
Richard C. Jeffrey
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),
Cambridge University Press
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.
* 2008. ''Mathematics, Models, and Modality: Selected Philosophical Essays'', Cambridge University Press.
* 2009. ''Philosophical Logic'', Princeton University Press.
* 2011. ''Truth'' (with Alexis Burgess), Princeton University Press.
* 2013. ''
Saul Kripke: Puzzles and Mysteries'' .
* 2015. ''Rigor and Structure'', Oxford University Press.
References
External links
Home pageJohn Burgess Video "The Necessity of Origin and the Origin of Necessity", Second Annual Saul Kripke Lecture, The CUNY Graduate Center, November 13th, 2012
American logicians
Princeton University faculty
Living people
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1948 births
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