Zach, Richard -

Submitted by root on Thu, 2010/06/24 - 4:52pm
Personal Information
First Name: 
Richard
Last Name: 
Zach
Department / Program: 
Philosophy
University Affiliation: 
University of Calgary
Phone: 
4032203170
Email Address: 
rzach@ucalgary.ca
Area of Research
Subject: 
Mathematics
Geographical Region: 
Europe
Global
Time Period: 
20th Century
Current
Specific Area of Research: 
Hilbert's program, history of logic, logical empiricism, Rudolf Carnap, proof theory and foundations of mathematics
Academics
PHD Program: 
Logic and the Methodology of Science
PHD University: 
University of California, Berkeley
PHD Date: 
2001
Major Publications: 
Mathematical Applications in Philosophy, special issue of The Review of Symbolic Logic 1 (September 2008). (Co-edited with Aldo Antonelli and Alasdair Uurquhart.) The development of mathematical logic from Russell to Tarski: 1900-1935 *In: Leila Haaparanta, ed., /The History of Modern Logic/. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. 324-479. in press. (with Paolo Mancosu and Calixto Badesa) *Hilbert
Membership in Academic Societies: 
Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) American Philosophical Association (APA) Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science Kurt Goedel Society History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS)
Courses Taught: 
Logic I, Logic II, Logic III, Modal Logic, Logical Positivism, Carnap, Philosophy of Mathematics, History of analytic philosophy