David Corfield

David Neil Corfield is a British philosopher specializing in philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of psychology. He was Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Kent until 2024.

Education Corfield studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and later earned his MSc and PhD in the philosophy of science and mathematics at King's College London. His doctoral advisor was Donald A. Gillies.

Work Corfield is the author of Towards a Philosophy of Real Mathematics (2003), in which he argues that the philosophical implications of mathematics did not stop with Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorems. He has also co-authored a book with Darian Leader about psychology and psychosomatic medicine, Why Do People Get Ill? (2007).

He joined the University of Kent in September 2007 where he was Senior Lecturer in Philosophy until 2024.

He is a member of the informal steering committee of nLab, a wiki-lab for collaborative work on mathematics, physics, and philosophy.