John P. Burgess

John Patton Burgess (born 5 June 1948) is an American philosopher. He is John N. Woodhull Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University where he specializes in logic and philosophy of mathematics.

Education and career

Burgess received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley's Group in Logic and Methodology of Science. His interests include logic, philosophy of mathematics and selected topics in metaethics and philosophy of mind. He is the author of numerous articles on logic, philosophy of mathematics, and the history of analytic philosophy. In 2012, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2026 he delivered the 37th Gödel Lecture. He is the brother of Barbara Burgess.

Selected publications 1997. A Subject with No Object: Strategies for Nominalistic Reconstrual of Mathematics (with Gideon Rosen), Oxford University Press. 2005. Fixing Frege, Princeton University Press. 2007. Computability and Logic (with George Boolos and Richard C. Jeffrey), Cambridge University Press. 2008. Mathematics, Models, and Modality: Selected Philosophical Essays, Cambridge University Press. 2009. Philosophical Logic, Princeton University Press. 2011. Truth (with Alexis Burgess), Princeton University Press. 2013. Saul Kripke: Puzzles and Mysteries . 2015. Rigor and Structure, Oxford University Press. 2022. Set Theory, Cambridge Elements, Cambridge University Press. 2024. A Logician's Perspective on the Relation Between the Mind and Body: Mentality and Modality, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.