Michael David Resnik (; born March 20, 1938) is a leading contemporary American
philosopher of mathematics.
Biography
Resnik obtained his B.A. in mathematics and philosophy at
Yale University
Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...
in 1960, and his PhD in Philosophy at
Harvard University
Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...
in 1964. He wrote his thesis on
Frege
Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (; ; 8 November 1848 – 26 July 1925) was a German philosopher, logician, and mathematician. He was a mathematics professor at the University of Jena, and is understood by many to be the father of analytic philos ...
. He was appointed Associate Professor at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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in 1967, Professor in 1975, and University Distinguished Professor in 1988.
[
] He is Professor
Emeritus
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In some c ...
of
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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and currently resides in rural
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External links
Philpapers.orgHome page of Michael_Resnik
1938 births
20th-century American philosophers
American logicians
American science writers
Analytic philosophers
Harvard University alumni
Living people
Writers from New Haven, Connecticut
American philosophers of mathematics
Structuralism (philosophy of mathematics)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty
Yale University alumni
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