Joan Weiner is an American philosopher and professor emerita of philosophy at Indiana University Bloomington, known for her books on Gottlob Frege.
Education and career
Weiner majored in mathematics at the University of Michigan, graduating with high distinction and honors in 1975. She completed a Ph.D. in philosophy at Harvard University in 1982.
She became an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in 1981, with terms as a visiting faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pittsburgh. She was promoted to associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1988 and full professor in 1997, while also earning a master's degree in biostatistics from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1993. In 2002 she moved to Indiana University Bloomington, and in 2019 she retired as a professor emerita.
Books
Weiner is the author of:
- Frege in Perspective (Cornell University Press, 1990)
- Frege (Past Masters, Oxford University Press, 1999), revised and expanded as Frege Explained: From Arithmetic To Analytic Philosophy (Open Court Press, 2004)
- Taking Frege At His Word (Oxford University Press, 2020)
Recognition
Weiner was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2000.
References
- ^ "Joan Weiner, Guggenheim Fellow (2000)", University Honors & Awards, Indiana University, retrieved 2021-02-06
- ^ Curriculum vitae (PDF), 6 May 2008, retrieved 2021-02-06
- Reviews of Frege in Perspective:
- Angelelli, Ignacio (1992), MathSciNet, MR 1115212
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Currie, Gregory (July 1991), Mind, New Series, 100 (3): 419–421, doi:10.1093/mind/C.399.419, JSTOR 2254952
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Dauben, Joseph W. (September 1993), Isis, 84 (3): 618–619, doi:10.1086/356624, JSTOR 235719
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Dummett, Michael (March 1992), Journal of Symbolic Logic, 57 (1): 255–258, doi:10.2307/2275191, JSTOR 2275191
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Grossmann, Reinhardt (September 1991), The Review of Metaphysics, 45 (1): 156–157, JSTOR 20129166
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Haaparanta, Leila (October 1995), "Perspectives into analytical philosophy", Synthese, 105 (1): 123–139, doi:10.1007/BF01064106, JSTOR 20117452
- Landesman, Charles (1993), Journal of the History of Philosophy, 31 (4): 643–645, doi:10.1353/hph.1993.0071
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Resnik, Michael D. (October 1992), The Philosophical Review, 101 (4): 893–895, doi:10.2307/2185950, JSTOR 2185950
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- Angelelli, Ignacio (1992), MathSciNet, MR 1115212
- Reviews of Frege:
- Grattan-Guinness, Ivor, zbMATH, Zbl 0955.01006
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Jackson, Howard (June 2001), Philosophia Mathematica, 9 (2): 252–256, doi:10.1093/philmat/9.2.252
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - MacBride, Fraser (June 2004), Studia Logica, 77 (1): 130–133, JSTOR 20016614
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- Grattan-Guinness, Ivor, zbMATH, Zbl 0955.01006
- Reviews of Frege Explained:
- Michael, B. (May 2006), Philosophia Mathematica, 15 (1): 126–128, doi:10.1093/philmat/nkl024
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Peckhaus, Volker, zbMATH, Zbl 1095.03002
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Smith, Nicholas J. J. (January 2007), Philosophical Books, 48 (1): 78–79, doi:10.1111/j.1468-0149.2007.432_4.x
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- Michael, B. (May 2006), Philosophia Mathematica, 15 (1): 126–128, doi:10.1093/philmat/nkl024
- "Joan Weiner", Fellows, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, retrieved 2021-02-06
Further reading
- Greimann, Dirk (April 2008), "Does Frege use a truth-predicate in his 'justification' of the laws of logic? A comment on Weiner", Mind, 117 (466): 403–425, doi:10.1093/mind/fzn035