Stewart Shapiro

Stewart Shapiro
Born1951
Alma materCase Western Reserve University
University at Buffalo
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic philosophy
Main interests
Philosophy of mathematics
Notable ideas
Mathematical structuralism (abstract variety)[1]

Stewart Shapiro (/ʃəˈpɪər/; born 1951) is O'Donnell Professor of Philosophy at the Ohio State University and distinguished visiting professor at the University of Connecticut. He is a figure in the philosophy of mathematics where he defends the abstract variety of structuralism.

  1. ^ Stewart Shapiro, "Mathematical Structuralism", Philosophia Mathematica, 4(2), May 1996, pp. 81–2.