I received my PhD in Philosophy from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. My main research areas include metaphysics, philosophical and mathematical logic, and the philosophy of science and mathematics
Dates of Visit: August 2014 - August 2015
Email: J.Wigglesworth@lse.ac.uk
Project Description: My project combines the philosophy of logic with tools from the philosophy of science. Logic is the study of consequence, the study of what follows from what. Different formal logics give us different theories about what follows from what. For example, classical and intuitionistic logic disagree about what follows from what, and so they give different, competing theories of consequence. If formal logics are theories of consequence, it is natural to think that they are scientific theories of one sort or another. And the study of the nature of scientific theories falls to the philosophy of science. This project explores the treatment of different logics as giving competing theories of consequence from the perspective of the philosophy of science.