Stewart Shapiro

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Stewart Shapiro (born June 15, 1951 in USA ) is an American scientist. He is O'Donnell Professor of Philosophy at Ohio State University and Professorial Fellow at the Ark Center at the University of St. Andrews .

Life

He is visiting professor at the University of St Andrews in Scotland . He works in various areas of ontology and the philosophy of mathematics . He is known as a representative of a mathematical structuralism - a position that does not consider substantial mathematical objects and their intrinsic properties to be the subject of mathematics, but the mathematical structures within which the individual objects only occupy certain positions.

He studied mathematics and philosophy at Case Western Reserve University in 1973. He received an MA in mathematics from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York in 1975. Three years later, he received a Ph.D. (Doctorate with distinction).

Publications

Books

  • Philosophy of Mathematics: Structure and Ontology . Oxford University Press, 1997. ISBN 0-19-513930-5
  • Thinking about Mathematics: The Philosophy of Mathematics . Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-19-289306-8
  • Foundations without Foundationalism: A Case for Second-Order Logic . Oxford University Press, 1991. ISBN 0-19-853391-8
  • Vagueness in Context . Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN 0-19-928039-8

Editorships

  • The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic . Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-19-514877-0
  • Special issue of "Philosophia Mathematica", devoted to structuralism. Contributions by: P. Benacerraf, G. Hellman, B. Hale, C. Parsons, M. Resnik, S. Shapiro,
  • "The limits of logic: Second order logic and the Skolem paradox" , The international research library of philosophy, Dartmouth Publishing Company,
  • Intensional Mathematics , Studies in Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics 113, Amsterdam, North Holland Publishing Company, 1985. Contributions by: S. Shapiro, J. Myhill , ND Goodman, A. Scedrov, V. Lifschitz, R. Flagg, R. Smullyan.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Philosophy/LogicMathematics/~~/dmlldz11c2EmY2k9OTc4MDE5NTMyNTkyOA==
personal data
SURNAME Shapiro, Stewart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American scientist
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH United States