Michael Detlefsen

Michael Detlefsen[1] is the McMahon-Hank II professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. His areas of special interest are logic, history of mathematics, philosophy of mathematics and epistemology.

Education

Detlefsen did his undergraduate studies at Wheaton College and his graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University. He began teaching at the University of Minnesota, Duluth and later moved to Notre Dame. He has held visiting professorships, lectureships and research positions at a number of universities including the University of Split, the University of Konstanz, the University of Paris 7-Diderot, the University of Lorraine, the Collège de France and the mathematics institute of the University of Toulouse, Paul Sabatier. He held a senior chaire d'excellence with the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) in France from 2007 through 2011. He is a past president of the Philosophy of Mathematics Association (PMA).

Scholarly work

Detlefsen has written a number of works on the foundational ideas of the German mathematician David Hilbert, and other major nineteenth and twentieth century foundational thinkers including Bernard Bolzano, L. E. J. Brouwer, Alonzo Church, Richard Dedekind, Gottlob Frege, Kurt Gödel, Moritz Pasch, Henri Poincaré and Bertrand Russell. He has held research fellowships from a number of foundations including the Agence nationale de la recherche (ANR) of France, the Fulbright foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the International Research and Exchange Commission.

He has been editor or co-editor in chief of the Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic since 1985. Currently he is co-editor with Anand Pillay.[2] He is also on the editorial boards of Philosophia Mathematica and the Journal of Universal Computer Science.

Detlefsen was the subject editor for entries in the history and philosophy of logic and mathematics for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

He has also organized and directed the annual Midwest PhilMath Workshop (MWPMW) since 2001 and the annual PhilMath Intersem (jointly sponsored by the University of Notre Dame and the U of Paris 7-Diderot) since 2010.

Select bibliography

  • Detlefsen, Michael. Hilbert's Program: An Essay in Mathematical Instrumentalism. Dordrecht & New York, 1986: D. Reidel & Springer.
  • Detlefsen, Michael. "Brouwerian Intuitionism". Mind 1990.
  • Detlefsen, Michael. "Poincaré Against the Logicians". Synthese 1992.
  • Detlefsen, Michael. "Philosophy of Mathematics in the Twentieth Century in Routledge History of Philosophy, volume IX (S. Shanker, ed.)". London, 1996: Routledge.
  • Detlefsen, Michael. "Constructive Existence Claims". In M. Schirn. Philosophy of Mathematics Today. Oxford & New York, 1998: Oxford University Press.
  • Detlefsen, Michael. "Formalism". Oxford Handbook for the Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic (S. Shapiro, ed.). Oxford & New York, 2005: Oxford University Press.

References

  1. ↑ John Templeton Foundation
  2. ↑ "Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic". Duke University Press. Retrieved 12 May 2018.
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