Professor Dr. Michael Potter

Biography

Michael Potter is a Professor of Logic in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a Life Fellow of Fitzwilliam College. He has previously been at Oxford, where he obtained his D.Phil. in pure mathematics as a Fellow at Balliol College. He has spent periods of research leave in the Department of Logic and Metaphysics at St Andrews and the Department of Philosophy at Harvard. His research interests are primarily in the history of analytic philosophy, with particular focus on figures such as Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein, as well as philosophy of mathematics, philosophical logic, philosophy of language, and philosophy of religion. Dr. Potter has supervised numerous research students on a range of topics including Dialetheism, fictionalism, and predicative mathematics. He is widely published, with notable works including "The Rise of Analytic Philosophy 1879-1930: Frege to Ramsey" and contributions to various philosophical compendiums and journals. Potter actively engages in lectures and seminars concerning topics at the intersection of mathematics and philosophy, thereby contributing significantly to contemporary philosophical discourse.

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