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Walter Dean

Contact:

Walter Dean (W.H.Dean@warwick.ac.uk)
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
Office: Social Studies S2.70

For 2022-2023, I am on research leave as a fellow of the French Institute for Advanced Study host by the Institut d'études avancée de Paris.

For terms 2 and 3 of 2020-2021 and all of 2021-2022, I was on research leave as a von Humboldt fellow at the MCMP in Munich.

Education:
PhD Computer Science (2010, CUNY), PhD Philosophy (2007, Rutgers), MSc Logic (1999, Amsterdam)

Interests:
Philosophy of mathematics, mathematical and philosophical logic, theoretical computer science, history and philosophy of computation.

Mathematics and Philosophy Degree:
I am the Philosophy convenor of the Mathematics and Philosophy joint degrees. (See our events page here.) Please contact me if you have any questions about the degrees or are considering post-graduate work at Warwick in logic or philosophy of mathematics.

Teaching:

2020-2021

  • Term 1: PH210 Logic II
  • Term 2: On research leave.

2021-2022

  • On research leave.

2022-2023

  • On research leave.

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2008:

  • “Algorithms and Ontology” Proceedings of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria.
  • “The Knower Paradox and the Quantified Logic of Proofs” (with Hidenori Kurokawa), Proceedings of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria.

2007:

  • “On Moschovakis’s theory of algorithmic identity”, Proceedings of the 7th Panhellenic Logic Symposium, Volos, Greece.