Paolo Mancosu

Paolo Mancosu is an Italian-American philosopher. He is Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He has worked on mathematical logic, the history of logic and mathematics, and the philosophy of mathematics. He has also published extensively on the editorial history of Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago.

Academic career

Mancosu received a Laurea degree from the Catholic University of Milan in 1984 and a PhD in philosophy from Stanford University in 1989. His thesis was supervised by Solomon Feferman. He was a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford from 1989 to 1992 and Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Yale University from 1992 to 1995. In 1995 he joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley.

Mancosu was a Humboldt Fellow in 1993 and 2017. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008 and was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, in 2009. In 2022, he held a Blaise Pascal Chair at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. In 2026, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His book Infini, logique, géométrie received the Cavaillès Prize in 2018, and Introduction to proof theory the Shoenfield Prize in 2022.

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