{{short description|American professor and philosopher (born 1943)}} {{About|the philosophy professor|the writer and editor|Geoffrey T. Hellman}} {{Infobox philosopher | region = [[Western philosophy]] | era = [[Contemporary philosophy]] | name = Geoffrey Hellman | image = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1943|8|16}} | birth_place = | alma_mater = [[Harvard University]] | school_tradition = [[Analytic philosophy]] | main_interests = [[Philosophy of mathematics]] | notable_ideas = [[Mathematical structuralism]] ([[Modal structuralism|modal variety]])<ref>[[Stewart Shapiro]], "Mathematical Structuralism", ''Philosophia Mathematica'', '''4'''(2), May 1996, pp. 81–2.</ref> | influences = | influenced = }} '''Geoffrey Hellman''' (born August 16, 1943<ref name="CV">{{cite web|url=http://hellman.umn.edu/sites/g/files/pua2166/f/media/geoffrey_hellman_cv_12-17.pdf|title=Curriculum Vitae, Geoffrey Hellman|work=[[University of Minnesota]]|access-date=29 October 2018 |archive-date=29 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181029232417/http://hellman.umn.edu/sites/g/files/pua2166/f/media/geoffrey_hellman_cv_12-17.pdf}}</ref>) is an American professor and philosopher. He is Professor of [[Philosophy]] at the [[University of Minnesota]] in [[Minneapolis, Minnesota]].<ref>[http://philosophy.umn.edu/people/ University of Minnesota department page]</ref> He obtained his B.A. (1965) and Ph.D. (1972) degrees in philosophy from [[Harvard University]]. He was elected to the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 2007.
==Books== *Hellman, Geoffrey (1989). ''Mathematics without Numbers. Towards a Modal-Structural Interpretation''. The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, New York, 1989.<ref>{{cite book |title=Mathematics without Numbers: Towards a Modal-Structural Interpretation |last=Hellman |first=Geoffrey |year=1989 |publisher=Clarendon Press |isbn=978-0-19-824034-1 |url=http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198240341.do |access-date=September 6, 2011}}</ref> *Mathematics and Its Logics: Philosophical Essays (Cambridge University Press, 2021). *Mathematical Structuralism, with Stewart Shapiro (Cambridge University Press, 2019). *Varieties of Continua: From Regions to Points and Back, with Stewart Shapiro (Oxford University Press, 2018). *Hilary Putnam on Mathematics and Logic, coedited with Roy Cook (Springer Verlag, 2018). *Quantum Measurement: Beyond Paradox, Minnesota Studies in Philosophy of Science (University of Minnesota Press, 1998) co-edited with Richard Healey.
==Selected works== * “Extending the Iterative Conception of Set: a Height-Potentialist Perspective”, in Mathematics and Its Logics: Philosophical Essays (op. cit). * “On the Gödel-Friedman Program”, in Mathematics and Its Logics: Philosophical Essays (op. cit). * “If ‘If-Then’ Then What?”, in Mathematics and Its Logics: Philosophical Essays (op. cit). *”Extendability and Paradox” (with Roy Cook), in Putnam on Mathematics and Logic, eds. Roy Cook and Geoffrey Hellman (Springer Verlag, 2018). *Predicativity and Regions-based Continua (with Stewart Shapiro), in a volume of essays honoring Solomon Feferman, Feferman on Logic and Foundations eds. Wilfried Sieg and Gerhard Jaeger (Springer Verlag, 2018). *“Reflections on Reflection in a Multiverse” in a Festschrift in honor of W.W. Tait, Erich Reck ed. (College Publications, London, 2018). *”Carnap* Replies” Monist 101 (2018): 388-393. *Hellman, Geoffrey (1993) Constructive Mathematics and Quantum Mechanics: Unbounded Operators and the Spectral Theorem, ''Journal of Philosophical Logic'' 12, 221-248. *[[Solomon Feferman|Feferman, Solomon]]; Hellman, Geoffrey (1995) Predicative foundations of arithmetic. ''J. Philos. Logic'' 24, no. 1, 1--17. *Hellman, Geoffrey (1997) Bayes and beyond. ''Philos. Sci.'' 64, no. 2, 191–221. *Hellman, Geoffrey (1998) Mathematical constructivism in spacetime. ''British J. Philos. Sci.'' 49, no. 3, 425–450. *Feferman, Solomon; Hellman, Geoffrey (2000) "Challenges to predicative foundations of arithmetic" in G. Sher and R. Tieszen, eds.''Between logic and Intuition'', 317–338, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge.
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==External links== *[http://philosophy.umn.edu/people/StaffProfile.php?UID=hellm001 Academic profile: University of Minnesota]
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