Geoffrey Hellman
{{short description|American professor and philosopher (born 1943)}}
{{About|the philosophy professor|the writer and editor|Geoffrey T. Hellman}}
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| era = Contemporary philosophy
| name = Geoffrey Hellman
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1943|8|16}}
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| alma_mater = Harvard University
| school_tradition = Analytic philosophy
| main_interests = Philosophy of mathematics
| notable_ideas = Mathematical structuralism (modal variety)Stewart Shapiro, "Mathematical Structuralism", Philosophia Mathematica, 4(2), May 1996, pp. 81–2.
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Geoffrey Hellman (born August 16, 1943{{cite web|url=http://hellman.umn.edu/sites/g/files/pua2166/f/media/geoffrey_hellman_cv_12-17.pdf|title=Curriculum Vitae, Geoffrey Hellman|work=University of Minnesota|access-date=29 October 2018 |archive-date=29 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181029232417/http://hellman.umn.edu/sites/g/files/pua2166/f/media/geoffrey_hellman_cv_12-17.pdf}}) is an American professor and philosopher. He is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota.[http://philosophy.umn.edu/people/ University of Minnesota department page] He obtained his B.A. (1965) and Ph.D. (1972) degrees in philosophy from Harvard University. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007.
Books
- Hellman, Geoffrey (1989). Mathematics without Numbers. Towards a Modal-Structural Interpretation. The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, New York, 1989.{{cite book |title=Mathematics without Numbers: Towards a Modal-Structural Interpretation |last=Hellman |first=Geoffrey |year=1989 |publisher=Clarendon Press |isbn=978-0-19-824034-1 |url=http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198240341.do |access-date=September 6, 2011}}
- Mathematics and Its Logics: Philosophical Essays (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
- Mathematical Structuralism, with Stewart Shapiro (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
- Varieties of Continua: From Regions to Points and Back, with Stewart Shapiro (Oxford University Press, 2018).
- Hilary Putnam on Mathematics and Logic, coedited with Roy Cook (Springer Verlag, 2018).
- Quantum Measurement: Beyond Paradox, Minnesota Studies in Philosophy of Science (University of Minnesota Press, 1998) co-edited with Richard Healey.
Selected works
- “Extending the Iterative Conception of Set: a Height-Potentialist Perspective”, in Mathematics and Its Logics: Philosophical Essays (op. cit).
- “On the Gödel-Friedman Program”, in Mathematics and Its Logics: Philosophical Essays (op. cit).
- “If ‘If-Then’ Then What?”, in Mathematics and Its Logics: Philosophical Essays (op. cit).
- ”Extendability and Paradox” (with Roy Cook), in Putnam on Mathematics and Logic, eds. Roy Cook and Geoffrey Hellman (Springer Verlag, 2018).
- Predicativity and Regions-based Continua (with Stewart Shapiro), in a volume of essays honoring Solomon Feferman, Feferman on Logic and Foundations eds. Wilfried Sieg and Gerhard Jaeger (Springer Verlag, 2018).
- “Reflections on Reflection in a Multiverse” in a Festschrift in honor of W.W. Tait, Erich Reck ed. (College Publications, London, 2018).
- ”Carnap* Replies” Monist 101 (2018): 388-393.
- 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" in G. Sher and R. Tieszen, eds.Between logic and Intuition, 317–338, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge.
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External links
- [http://philosophy.umn.edu/people/StaffProfile.php?UID=hellm001 Academic profile: University of Minnesota]
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