Stephen G. Mackereth
Research Associate
Appointments
Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows
Department of Philosophy
Area of Expertise
logic,
philosophy of mathematics,
Frege,
Gödel,
truth
Biography
Stephen Mackereth is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Dartmouth Society of Fellows, affiliated with the Department of Philosophy. He received his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in 2024. He works on logic, philosophy of mathematics, and the history of analytic philosophy. More specifically, he has written about neo-Fregean logicism, Gödel's Dialectica translation, and theories of truth. His research interests flow from an effort to understand the great foundational debate in mathematics between logicists and constructivists at the turn of the twentieth century. He enjoys thinking about logical and semantic paradoxes; about the notions of proof, truth, computation, and definition; and about the nature and role of foundations in mathematics.
Education
Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh, 2024
M.A. University of Pittsburgh, 2022
A.B. Harvard College, 2015
Publications
Stephen Mackereth, "Conservativeness and Neo-Logicism." To appear in The Journal of Philosophy.
Stephen Mackereth, "Infinity, Choice, and Hume's Principle." To appear in Journal of Philosophical Logic.
Stephen Mackereth and Jeremy Avigad (2023), "Two-sorted Frege Arithmetic is not Conservative." Review of Symbolic Logic 16(4): 1199–1232. First published online, 18 April 2022.
Stephen Mackereth (2019), "Fixed-Point Posets in Theories of Truth." Journal of Philosophical Logic 48(1): 189–203.
Works in Progress
"The Philosophical Significance of Gödel's Dialectica Translation"
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