University of Vienna · Institut Für Philosophie · Universitätsstrasse 7

University of Vienna · Institut Für Philosophie · Universitätsstrasse 7

· · · · · University of Vienna InstitutJohn f¨urPhilosophie WigglesworthUniversit¨atsstrasse 7 A-1010 Vienna Austria Research Interests [email protected] www.wigglesworth.org Teaching Competence Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophical Logic, Metaphysics Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind, Applied Ethics, Academic Positions History of Philosophy (Ancient and Early Modern) University of Vienna June 2017 – Present The Roots of Mathematical Structuralism Postdoctoral Researcher, Institut f¨urPhilosophie ERCLudwig-Maximilians-Universit¨at,M¨unchen Project June 2017 – Present ExternalLudwig-Maximilians-Universit¨at,M¨unchen Member, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy June 2015 – June 2017 Mathematics: Objectivity by Representation Postdoctoral Researcher, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy DFG-ANRLondon School Project of Economics and Political Science Sept. 2013 – June 2015 VisitingBirkbeck, Lecturer University and ofResearch London Fellow Sept. 2014 – March 2015 AssociateInstitute of Tutor Philosophy, University of London Sept. 2013 – July 2014 VisitingQueens ResearchCollege, City Fellow University of New York Aug. 2007 – May 2012 Education Adjunct Lecturer 2013 PhD, Philosophy, The Graduate Center, City University of New York 2011, 2012 Visitingcum Scholar,laude University of St. Andrews 2011 Visiting Scholar, University of Melbourne 2005 BA , Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Peer Reviewed Articles The Australasian Journal of Logic The British Journal for the Philosophy‘Bi-Modal Naive of Science Set Theory’, forthcoming in . ‘The Structuralist Thesis Reconsidered’, co-authored with Georg Schiemer, Reality and its Structure: Essays in Fundamentality, DOI: 10.1093/bjps/axy004, 2018. ‘Grounding in Mathematical Structuralism’, in Bliss, R. and Priest,Analysis G. (eds.) , Oxford University Press, 217 – 236, 2018. The Australasian Journal of Logic ‘Logical Anti-Exceptionalism and Theoretical Equivalence’, 77: 759 – 767, 2017. ‘Set-Theoretic Dependence’, 12: 159 – 176, 2015. Book Reviews and Other Publications The Reasoner The Boundary Stones of Thought The Philosophical Quarterly Guest column ‘What’s Hot in Mathematical Philosophy’, 12: 22 – 23, 2018. Review of Ian Rumfitt The Metaphysics of Logic. Philosophy 67: 219 – 221, 2017. UnderReview Reviewof Penelope and InRush Preparation (ed.) . 90: 710 – 715, 2015. Erkenntnis ‘Non-Eliminative Structuralism, Fregean Abstraction, and Non-Rigid Structures’, under review afterThe Philosophicalpositive revise Quarterly and resubmit with . ‘Scientific Realism without Mathematical Platonism: A Structuralist Approach’, under review with . ‘Putnam on Indispensability and Semantics’, in preparation. Editorial‘Bayesian ConfirmationWork of Logical Theories’, in preparation. Philosophia Mathematica Co-editor of a special issue ofSynthese on “The Foundations of Mathematical Structuralism” (with Georg Schiemer), in preparation. Co-editor of a special issue of on “The Foundations of Mathematics: Competing Foun- dations, New Axioms and the Set-Theoretic Multiverse” (with Carolin Antos-Kuby, Neil Barton, Sy RefereedDavid Friedman, Presentations and Claudio Ternullo), in-preparation. Logical Anti-Exceptionalism and Theoretical Equivalence European Philosophy of Science Association Conference, Exeter, September 2017 Critical Views of Logic, Oslo, August 2017 Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society & the Mind Association, Edinburgh, July 2017 Non-EliminativeBritish Society Structuralism, for the Philosophy Fregean of Abstraction, Science Annual and Conference,Non-Rigid Structures Edinburgh, July 2017 NaiveThe Modal Emergence Set Theory of Structuralism and Formalism, Prague, June 2016 Prague Seminar on Non-Classical Mathematics, June 2015 LogicalHistory Laws & and Philosophy Logical Possibilityof Infinity, Cambridge, September 2013 British Society for the Philosophy of Science, Annual Conference, Exeter, July 2013 Graduate Conference in Theoretical Philosophy, Groningen, April 2013 MathematicalPhDs in Logic Structuralism V, Munich and Center Metaphysical for Mathematical Dependence Philosophy, April 2013 MetaphysicalStructuralism Dependence in Physics and and Set Mathematics, Theory Bristol, Sept. 2012 Reality Making: Exploring Fundamentals in Metaphysics, Nottingham, July 2012 Australasian Postgraduate Philosophy Conference, Monash University, April 2011 John Wigglesworth CV page 2 What is a Possible World? Logic, Mathematics, and Physics Graduate Conference, Western Ontario, May 2012 Northwest Student Philosophy Conference, Western Washington University, May 2012 InvitedGraduate Presentations Conference in Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin, March 2012 Abstraction and Rigidity MathematicalVarieties of Nominalism Mathematical Abstraction, Universit¨atWien, upcoming August 2018 ScientificUniversit¨atWien, Realism without March Mathematical 2018 Platonism: A Structuralist Approach Universit¨atWien, November 2017 University of Leeds, March 2017 University of York, March 2017 NaiveNumbers Modal in Set Mind, Theory Institute of Philosophy, London, February 2017 Truth and Properties: Building Bridges, LMU M¨unchen,September 2016 University of Oxford, November 2014 LogicsUniversity as Scientific of Melbourne, Theories Mayof Consequence 2011 Universit¨atWien, June 2016 University of Bristol, May 2014 University of Kent, April 2014 Non-EliminativeInstitute of Philosophy, Structuralism, London, Fregean March Abstraction, 2014 and Non-Rigid Structures Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, May 2016 MathematicalArchives Henri Structuralism Poincar´e,Universit´ede and Metaphysical Lorraine, Dependence January 2016 ReasoningMunich Biases Center and for Mathematical Non-Classical Philosophy, Logic July 2015 London School of Economics, November 2013 MetaphysicalCumberland Dependence Lodge, November and Set 2013 Theory The Graduate Center, CUNY, November 2011 University of Melbourne, March 2011 WhyUniversity Does Logic of MatterAdelaide, to JanuaryPhilosophy? 2011 Queens College, CUNY, November 2009 John Wigglesworth CV page 3 Teaching Experience Postgraduate Advanced Logic (completeness and incompleteness) Logic and Language (modal and non-classical logics) Philosophy of Mathematics Emotion, Cognition, and Behaviour: Science and Policy Philosophical Research and Writing Research Methods in the Social Sciences Undergraduate Introductory Logic Philosophy of Mind Business Ethics History of Philosophy: Ethics History of Philosophy: Metaphysics and Epistemology Introduction to Philosophy Supervision Master’s Theses Final Undergraduate Theses Independent Studies Conference Organisation Varieties of Mathematical Abstraction (with Francesca Biagioli and Georg Schiemer). Vienna, July 2018.SotFoM Funded 4: Reverse by the MathematicsEuropean Research Council (ERC). (with Carolin Antos-Kuby, Neil Barton, and Claudio Ternullo). Munich, October 9 – 11, 2017. Keynote Speakers: Marianna Antonutti Marfori, Walter Dean, Benedict Eastaugh, Takako Nemoto, Stephen Simpson. Funded by the German Research Foun- dationModel (DFG), Theory: awarded Philosophy,€18,300. Mathematics, Language (with Lavinia Picollo and Gil Sagi). Munich, January 2017. Keynote speakers: J. Baldwin, T. Button, H. Field, V. Halbach, J. Kennedy, M. Magidor, G. Schiemer, G. Sher, D. Westerst˚ahl,Y. Winter, T. E. Zimmermann. Funded by the German ResearchFoundations Foundation of Mathematical (DFG), awarded Structuralism€23,800. (with Georg Schiemer). Munich, October 12 – 14, 2016. Keynote Speakers: S. Awodey, J. Carter, G. Heinzmann, G. Hellman, J. Ladyman, H. Leitgeb, M. Leng, Ø.SotFoM Linnebo, 3 E. and Reck. the Funded Hyperuniverse by the German Programme Research Foundation (DFG), awarded €18,300. (with Carolin Antos-Kuby, Neil Barton, and Claudio Ternullo). Kurt G¨odelResearch Center, University of Vienna, September 21 – 23, 2015. KeynoteAlternative Speakers: Foundations T. Arrigoni, of Mathematics S. Friedman, (SotFoM G. Hellman, 2) M. Leng, Ø. Linnebo. Funded by the KGRC. (with Carolin Antos-Kuby, Neil Barton, and Claudio Ternullo). London, January 12 – 13, 2015. Keynote Speakers: S. Friedman, V. Gitman, J. Ladyman, and T. Meadows. Funded by the Mind Association, Institute of Philosophy, BSPS, Aris- totelianSymposium Society, on the British Foundations Logic Colloquium, of Mathematics and Birkbeck (SotFoM) College, awarded £4,700. (with Carolin Antos-Kuby, Neil Barton, and Claudio Ternullo). Kurt G¨odelResearch Center, University of Vienna, July 7 – 8, 2014. Keynote speakers: H. Leitgeb and S. Friedman. Funded by the KGRC. John Wigglesworth CV page 4 Service and Professional Affiliations Australasian Journal of Logic, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, dialectica, Erkenntnis, Synthese, Theoria Referee for . MSc and Undergraduate Exam Sub-Boards committee member, LSE. Convenor of a work group for London-based early career researchers. Co-convenor of a reading group on set theory with London-based postgraduate students. Member, British Society for the Philosophy of Science, American Philosophical Association. Detailed Teaching Experience Philosophy of Mathematics Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU M¨unchen – Co-taught with Georg Schiemer. MA and advanced undergraduate seminar covering main approaches to the philosophy of mathematics, including platonism, intuition- Varietiesism, and naturalism, of Philosophical as well Logic as an extended focus on topics in (neo-)logicism and structuralism (30 students). – Guest lecture on intuitionistic logic (10 students).

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