Professor Alexander Paseau
Professor of Mathematical Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy; Stuart Hampshire Fellow, Wadham College
Professor Alexander Paseau’s research spans mathematical philosophy. He writes on the philosophy of mathematics, logic, metaphysics and formal epistemology, with occasional forays into value theory and the philosophy of religion.
Academic profile
About
Professor Alexander Paseau's research ranges widely over mathematical philosophy and beyond. He has published on topics in philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of logic, mathematical logic, philosophical logic, formal epistemology and formal metaphysics, as well as the ethics and philosophy of religion. He has edited a five-volume anthology on the philosophy of mathematics, and co-edited a collection on mathematical knowledge.
Professor Paseau is the author of One True Logic (with Owen Griffiths), Indispensability (with Alan Baker), The Euclidean Programme (with Wes Wrigley) and two books to be shortly published: Propositional Logic and What is Mathematics About? He is also the editor of the forthcoming Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Mathematics.
He has also written several pieces for a general academic audience and for the wider public.
Image credit: Rebecca Reid.
Expertise
- Logic and reasoning
- Philosophy of mathematics
- Philosophy of religion
- Metaphysics
- Epistemology
Selected publications
- One True Logic (2022)
- Arithmetic, enumerative induction and size bias (2021)
- Is English consequence compact? (2021)
- Propositionalism (2021)
- Logos, logic and maximal infinity (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
- ‘Propositional Logics of Truth by Logical Form’ in The Semantic Conception of Logic: Essays on Consequence, Invariance, and Meaning (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
- Non-metric propositional similarity (Erkenntnis, 2020)
Languages
English, French, Greek, Italian (all fluent). Reading competence in Latin, Ancient Greek and German.