Paolo Mancosu

Paolo Mancosu (Ph.D., Stanford University). His interests lie in the philosophy of mathematics and its history, in philosophy of logic, and in mathematical logic. His written work is currently focused upon neologicism, the philosophy of mathematical practice, and mathematical infinity. He has recently published “Infini, logique, géométrie” (Vrin, Paris, 2015) (“Prix Jean Cavaillès 2018”), “Abstraction and Infinity” (Oxford University Press, 2017), “Moscow Has Ears Everywhere. New Investigations on Pasternak and Ivinskaya” (Hoover Press, Stanford, 2019), and, with S. Galvan and R. Zach, “An Introduction to Proof Theory. Normalization, Cut-Elimination, and Consistency Proofs”, (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2021)”. He was recently awarded a Chaire d’excellence internationale Blaise Pascal.

Research theme

• to test the sources of our knowledge of numbers and probabilities;
• make new and profound contributions to some of the most central areas of debate, in contemporary philosophy of mathematics and in the philosophy of probability, which touch on infinity.

Selected Publications

• Philosophy of Mathematics and Mathematical Practice in the Seventeenth Century, Oxford University Press, 1996
• The Philosophy of Mathematical Practice, Oxford University Press, 2008
• The Adventure of Reason. Interplay between mathematical logic and philosophy of mathematics: 1900-1940, Oxford University Press, 2010
• Inside the Zhivago Storm. The Editorial Adventures of Pasternak’s Masterpiece, Feltrinelli, 2013
• Abstraction and Infinity, Oxford University Press, 2017
• (with S. Galvan and R. Zach), An Introduction to Proof Theory. Normalization, Cut-Elimination, and Consistency Proofs, 2021.