Geoffrey Hellman
Geoffrey Hellman is an American professor and philosopher. He is Chairman of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota.[1]
Education
He obtained his B.A. and Ph.D. (1972) degrees in philosophy from Harvard University.
Awards
- He has received the National Science Foundation Scholars Award, "Pluralism in the Foundations of Mathematics", June 2004 - June 2005.[2]
- He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007.
Book
- Hellman, Geoffrey (1989) Mathematics without numbers. Towards a modal-structural interpretation. The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, New York, 1989.[3]
Selected works
- Hellman, Geoffrey (1993) Constructive Mathematics and Quantum Mechanics: Unbounded Operators and the Spectral Theorem, Journal of Philosophical Logic 12, 221-248.
- Feferman, Solomon; Hellman, Geoffrey (1995) Predicative foundations of arithmetic. J. Philos. Logic 24, no. 1, 1--17.
- Hellman, Geoffrey (1997) Bayes and beyond. Philos. Sci. 64, no. 2, 191--221.
- Hellman, Geoffrey (1998) Mathematical constructivism in spacetime. British J. Philos. Sci. 49, no. 3, 425--450.
- Feferman, Solomon; Hellman, Geoffrey (2000) Challenges to predicative foundations of arithmetic. Between logic and intuition, 317--338, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge.
See also
Criticism of non-standard analysis
Notes
- ↑ University of Minnesota department page
- ↑ Biography page, University of Minnesota
- ↑ Hellman, Geoffrey (1989). Mathematics without Numbers: Towards a Modal-Structural Interpretation. Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-824034-1. Retrieved September 6, 2011.