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Details for Professor Richard Pettigrew
| Personal details | |
| Name | Professor Richard Pettigrew |
| Job title | Professor of Philosophy |
| Department | Department of Philosophy University of Bristol |
| Personal web page | http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~rp3959/ |
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| Qualifications | BA (Oxon.), MA (Bristol), PhD (Bristol) |
| Professional details | |
| Membership of professional bodies | The Aristotelian Society The Mind Association The Association for Symbolic Logic |
| Keywords | philosophy of mathematics epistemology Kant logic philosophy of science set theory category theory arithmetic |
| Areas of expertise | My background is in philosophy and mathematics. I studied both subjects both as an undergraduate and as a postgraduate. My MA is in philosophy, and my PhD is in Mathematical Logic. I am now a postdoctoral researcher in the philosophy department. My research covers the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of science, epistemology, and the history of philosophy. In the philosophy of mathematics, I am particularly interested in the search for a satisfactory foundations for mathematics. Mathematical knowledge is thought to be unique in the certainty it provides. How does it come to have this certainty? In epistemology and the philosophy of science, I am interested in the justification of our everyday beliefs about the world we inhabit. What is it that justifies us in inferring inductively from our past experience to our beliefs about the future? In the history of philosophy, I am interested in Aristotle's philosophy of mathematics, and Kant's theoretical philosophy. |