Penelope Maddy

Penelope Maddy earned a BA in mathematics from the University of California, Berkelely, and a PhD in philosophy from Princeton University. She has held faculty positions at the University of Notre Dame, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the University of California at Irvine. Maddy is the author of Realism in Mathematics , Naturalism in Mathematics (winner of the 2002 Lakatos Award), Second Philosophy , Defending the Axioms , The Logical Must , and What Do Philosophers Do? Skepticism...See more

Penelope Maddy earned a BA in mathematics from the University of California, Berkelely, and a PhD in philosophy from Princeton University. She has held faculty positions at the University of Notre Dame, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the University of California at Irvine. Maddy is the author of Realism in Mathematics , Naturalism in Mathematics (winner of the 2002 Lakatos Award), Second Philosophy , Defending the Axioms , The Logical Must , and What Do Philosophers Do? Skepticism and the Practice of Philosophy , all published with Oxford University Press. Maddy is a former President of the Association for Symbolic Logic and of the American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division), and a current Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. See less