Philosopher
John Lane Bell
Overview
John Lane Bell (born March 25, 1945) is a Canadian philosopher, mathematician, and logician specializing in mathematical logic and the foundations of mathematics. He served as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario from 1989 until his retirement in 2019, and previously held positions at the London School of Economics from 1968 to 1989. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2009, Bell's research encompasses constructive mathematics, intuitionistic logic, set theory, topos theory, and the axiom of choice, among other topics.
Bell has authored influential books including Intuitionistic Set Theory (2014), which explores set-theoretic foundations intuitionistic principles, and Oppositions and Paradoxes (2016), addressing logical and philosophical paradoxes. His work bridges technical developments in logic with philosophical inquiries into continuity, infinitesimals, and the nature of mathematical structures, contributing to the ongoing debates in the philosophy of mathematics.
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Philosophers who discussed John Lane Bell
Ideas John Lane Bell discusses
- Intuitionistic logic
- Mathematics
- Mathematical logic
- Model theory
- Constructivism (philosophy of mathematics)
- Paradox
- Set theory
- University of Oxford
- Modal logic
- Graham Priest
- Type theory
- Philosophy of mathematics
- London School of Economics
- Axiom of choice
Place in the tradition
Part of Type theory.