John P. Burgess

John P. Burgess
Born	John Patton Burgess (1948-06-05) 5 June 1948
Education	Princeton University Ohio State University University of California, Berkeley (PhD, 1974)
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy
Thesis	Infinitary Languages and Descriptive Set Theory (1974)
Doctoral advisor	Jack Silver
Doctoral students	Penelope Maddy
Other notable students	John Baez
Main interests	Logic, philosophy of mathematics

John Patton Burgess (born 5 June 1948) is an American philosopher. He is John N. Woodhull Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University where he specializes in logic and philosophy of mathematics.

Education and career

Burgess received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley's Group in Logic and Methodology of Science. His interests include logic, philosophy of mathematics and selected topics in metaethics and philosophy of mind. He is the author of numerous articles on logic, philosophy of mathematics, and the history of analytic philosophy. In 2012, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the brother of Barbara Burgess.

Selected publications

• 1997. A Subject with No Object: Strategies for Nominalistic Reconstrual of Mathematics (with Gideon Rosen), Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198236158
• 2005. Fixing Frege, Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691122318
• 2007. Computability and Logic (with George Boolos and Richard C. Jeffrey), Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521877520
• 2008. Mathematics, Models, and Modality: Selected Philosophical Essays, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521880343
• 2009. Philosophical Logic, Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691137897
• 2011. Truth (with Alexis Burgess), Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691144016
• 2013. Saul Kripke: Puzzles and Mysteries ISBN 978-0-7456-5284-9.
• 2015. Rigor and Structure, Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198722229
• 2022. Set Theory, Cambridge Elements, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108986915

External links

• Home page
• John Burgess Video "The Necessity of Origin and the Origin of Necessity", Second Annual Saul Kripke Lecture, The CUNY Graduate Center, November 13th, 2012