Biography:Mary Leng
Mary Leng is a British philosopher specialising in the philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of science. She is a professor at the University of York.
Career
Leng studied as an undergraduate at Balliol College, University of Oxford and as postgraduate student at the University of Toronto.[1] She worked at the University of Cambridge from 2002 to 2006, and then the University of Liverpool from 2006 to 2011. In 2007, she co-edited a collection called Mathematical Knowledge with Alexander Paseau and Michael Potter, which was published by Oxford University Press,[2] and, in 2010, she published a monograph called Mathematics and Reality, again with Oxford University Press. In Mathematics and Reality, Leng defends mathematical fictionalism.[3] Leng joined the University of York in 2012, where she is now a professor.[1]
Personal life
She is married to the philosopher Martin O'Neill;[4] they have four children.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Leng, Mary - Philosophy, the University of York". https://www.york.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/mary-leng/.
- ↑ Reviews of Mathematical Knowledge:
- Chudnoff, Elijah (2009). "Mathematical Knowledge, edited by Mary Leng, Alexander Paseau, and Michael Potter". Mind 118 (471): 846–50. doi:10.1093/mind/fzp079.
- Gray, Jeremy (2008). "Mathematical Knowledge". Mathematical Association of America. https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/mathematical-knowledge.
- ↑ Reviews of Mathematics and Reality:
- Duda, Roman, "none", zbMATH
- Burgess, John P. (August 2010), "none", Philosophia Mathematica 18 (3): 337–344, doi:10.1093/philmat/nkq013
- Lavers, Gregory (November 2010), "Review", Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/mathematics-and-reality/
- Craig, William Lane (2011), "none", Philosophia Christi 13 (2): 479–486, doi:10.5840/pc201113243
- Saatsi, Juha (June 2011), "none", The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 17 (2): 267–268, doi:10.1017/S1079898600000573
- Thomas, Robert (June 2011), "none", The Mathematical Intelligencer 33 (4): 61–62, doi:10.1007/s00283-011-9228-1
- Rizza, Davide (July 2011), "none", The Philosophical Quarterly 61 (244): 655–657, doi:10.1111/j.1467-9213.2011.710_10.x
- Horsten, Leon (October 2011), "none", Analysis 71 (4): 798–799, doi:10.1093/analys/anr066
- Trobok, Majda (December 2011), "none", International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 25 (4): 413–417, doi:10.1080/02698595.2011.623370
- Dieterle, Jill M. (2012), "none", Mathematical Reviews
- Frans, Joachim (November 2012), "The game of fictional mathematics", Constructivist Foundations 8 (1): 126–128, https://constructivist.info/8/1/126.frans
- Roland, Jeffrey W. (January 2013), "none", Mind 122 (485): 297–302, doi:10.1093/mind/fzt042
- Weir, Alan (September 2013), "none", The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 65 (3): 657–664, doi:10.1093/bjps/axt024
- Kasube, Herbert E. (December 2014), "Review", MAA Reviews (Mathematical Association of America), https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/mathematics-and-reality
- ↑ Leng, Mary (2010). Mathematics and Reality. Oxford University Press. p. vii.
- ↑ O'Neill, Martin (2020). "Social Justice and Economic Systems: On Rawls, Democratic Socialism, and Alternatives to Capitalism". Philosophical Topics 48 (2): 197.
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