Joan Weiner

Joan Weiner is an American philosopher and professor emerita of philosophy at Indiana University Bloomington,[1] known for her books on Gottlob Frege.

Education and career

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Weiner majored in mathematics at the University of Michigan, graduating with high distinction and honors in 1975. She completed a Ph.D. in philosophy at Harvard University in 1982.[1][2]

She became an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in 1981, with terms as a visiting faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pittsburgh. She was promoted to associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1988 and full professor in 1997, while also earning a master's degree in biostatistics from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1993. In 2002 she moved to Indiana University Bloomington,[1][2] and in 2019 she retired as a professor emerita.[1]

Books

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Weiner is the author of:

  • Frege in Perspective (Cornell University Press, 1990)[3]
  • Frege (Past Masters, Oxford University Press, 1999),[4] revised and expanded as Frege Explained: From Arithmetic To Analytic Philosophy (Open Court Press, 2004)[5]
  • Taking Frege At His Word (Oxford University Press, 2020)

Recognition

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Weiner was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2000.[1][6]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Joan Weiner, Guggenheim Fellow (2000)", University Honors & Awards, Indiana University, retrieved 2021-02-06
  2. ^ a b Curriculum vitae (PDF), 6 May 2008, retrieved 2021-02-06
  3. ^ Reviews of Frege in Perspective:
  4. ^ Reviews of Frege:
  5. ^ Reviews of Frege Explained:
  6. ^ "Joan Weiner", Fellows, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, retrieved 2021-02-06

Further reading

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  • Greimann, Dirk (April 2008), "Does Frege use a truth-predicate in his 'justification' of the laws of logic? A comment on Weiner", Mind, 117 (466): 403–425, doi:10.1093/mind/fzn035