Peter Koellner

Department of Philosophy
320 Emerson Hall, Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138

(617) 495-3970

koellner@fas.harvard.edu

Full CV and Research Interests.

Logic at Harvard.

Papers

Encyclopedia Articles

Preprints and Book Drafts

  • Carnap on the Foundations of Mathematics
  • Independence in Arithmetic and Set Theory
  • Incompleteness and the Limits of Mechanism
  • Russell on the Foundations of Logic and Mathematics
  • Foundations of Set Theory: The Search for New Axioms (with Hugh Woodin).

Reviews

Review of The Cambridge Companion to Bertrand Russell, in Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, January 2005.

Courses Taught at Harvard

  • Set Theory (Phil 143, Fall 2003)
  • Set Theory: Large Cardinals from Determinacy (Math 242, Fall 2004)
  • Set Theory: Inner Model Theory (Math 244, Spring 2008)
  • Set Theory: The Higher Infinite (Phil 142, Fall 2010)
  • Set Theory: Exploring the Frontiers of Incompleteness (Phil 142, Spring 2011 (part 1), Fall 2011 (part 2), Spring 2012 (part 3))
  • Foundational Aspects of Set Theory (Phil 243w, Spring 2007)
  • Deductive Logic (QR 22, Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2009)
  • Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning (EMR 17, Fall 2010)
  • Logic and Philosophy (Phil 144, Spring 2004)
  • Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics (Phil 143Y, Spring 2004)
  • Intermediate Logic: Introduction to Model Theory (Proseminar, Phil 142z, Spring 2008)
  • Topics in the Philosophy of Mathematics (Seminar, Phil 248, Fall 2009)
  • Foundations of Space-Time Theories (Phil 150, Fall 2003, Fall 2006)
  • Determinism and Quantum Mechanics (Phil 151, Fall 2004)
  • Realism (Tutorial, Spring 2007)
  • The Scientific Revolution (Tutorial, Spring 2006)
  • Philosophy and the Exact Sciences: Aristotle to Newton (Phil 149y, Spring 2010, Fall 2011)