Michael Detlefsen

Michael Detlefsen (20 October 1948 – 21 October 2019) was an American philosopher who was a McMahon-Hank Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. His areas of special interest were logic, history of mathematics, philosophy of mathematics and epistemology.

Biography Michael "Mic" Detlefsen was born on 20 October 1948 in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, U.S.A.

He undertook undergraduate studies at Wheaton College, Illinois, obtaining an A.B. in 1971.

Detlefsen began his academic career as an Assistant, and then Associate Professor, at the University of Minnesota, Duluth in 1975. He was also on the editorial boards of Philosophia Mathematica and the Journal of Universal Computer Science.

Detlefsen was the subject editor for entries in the history and philosophy of logic and mathematics for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

He also organized and directed the annual Midwest PhilMath Workshop (MWPMW) from 2001 and the annual PhilMath Intersem (jointly sponsored by the University of Notre Dame and the Paris Diderot University) from 2010.