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Elaine Landry

Elaine Landry

Associate Professor and Graduate Adviser

2286 Social Science and Humanities Building
Davis , Ca 95616
Office Phone: (530) 554-1391

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Education:

  1. Ph.D.: University of Western Ontario, 1998

Biography:

Dissertation: "Category-Theoretic Realism: A Linguistic Approach to the Philosophy of Mathematics," directed by John Bell.

Areas of Specialization: Philosophy of mathematics (category theory, set theory, model theory), philosophy of science (physics, logical positivism, realism), analytic philosophy (Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Carnap), philosophy of language, logic

Joined the UC Davis Philosophy Faculty: 2008

2011-2012 Course Schedule

Fall
200A – Proseminar I

Winter
30 – Introduction to Philosophy of Science
189I – Special Topics in Philosophy of Science

Spring
Not teaching

Other Courses

12 Introduction to Symbolic Logic
131 Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics 189I Topics in Philosophy of Science
210 Philosophy of Science Seminar

Recent Publications

"Shared Structure Need Not Be Shared Set-Structure," Synthese 158 (2007), pp. 1-17.
"Scientific Structuralism: Presentation and Representation" (co-author Katherine Brading), Philosophy of Science, 73 (5) (2006), pp. 571-581.

Currently Supervising Dissertations

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