John MacFarlane | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard University University of Pittsburgh |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Known for | Pandoc CommonMark |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | What Does it Mean to Say that Logic is Formal? (2000) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Brandom[1] |
| Website | johnmacfarlane |
John MacFarlane is an American professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley[2] interested in logic and metaphysics. He has made influential contributions to truth-value theory inferential semantics.[2] [3] In 2015, he was elected a Fellow the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also known for his contributions to open source software, especially the Pandoc document converter and other Markdown parsers and verifiers. MacFarlane was among the group of people that helped launch the CommonMark standardization effort for Markdown.[4][5]
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- ^ MacFarlane, John. "John MacFarlane — CV". Retrieved 14 November 2017.
- ^ Pandoc website website for Pandoc software
- ^ Pandoc GitHub GitHub home of Pandoc project (note: GitHub username is initials "jgm")