John Lane Bell

John Lane Bell FRSC (born March 25, 1945) is a Canadian philosopher and logician. He is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. He has made contributions to mathematical logic and philosophy, and is the author of a number of books. His research includes such topics as set theory, model theory, lattice theory, modal logic, quantum logic, constructive mathematics, type theory, topos theory, infinitesimal analysis, spacetime theory, and the philosophy of mathematics. He is the author of more than 70 articles and of 11 books. In 2009, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Biography

John Bell was awarded a scholarship to Oxford University at the age of 15, and graduated with a D.Phil. in Mathematics: his dissertation supervisor was John Crossley. During 1968–89 he was lecturer in Mathematics and Reader in Mathematical Logic at the London School of Economics.[1]

John Bell's students include Graham Priest (Ph.D. Mathematics LSE, 1972), Michael Hallett (Ph.D. Philosophy LSE, 1979), David DeVidi (Ph.D. Philosophy UWO, 1994), Elaine Landry (Ph.D. Philosophy UWO, 1997) and Richard Feist (Ph.D. Philosophy UWO, 1999).

Bibliography
  • Intuitionistic Set Theory. College Publications, 2013.
  • Set Theory: Boolean-Valued Models and Independence Proofs. Oxford University Press 2011.
  • The Axiom of Choice. College Publications, 2009.
  • The Continuous and the Infinitesimal in Mathematics and Philosophy. Polimetrica, 2005.
  • (With D. DeVidi and G. Solomon) Logical Options: An Introduction to Classical and Alternative Logics. Broadview Press, 2001.
  • The Art of the Intelligible: An Elementary Survey of Mathematics in its Conceptual Development. Kluwer, 1999.
  • A Primer of Infinitesimal Analysis. Cambridge University Press, 1998. Second Edition, 2008.
  • Toposes & Local Set Theories: An Introduction. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1988.[2] Reprinted by Dover, 2008.
  • Boolean-Valued Models and Independence Proofs in Set Theory. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1977. 2nd edition, 1985. 3rd edition, 2005.
  • (With M. Machover). A Course in Mathematical Logic. North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1977. 4th printing, 2003.
  • (With A. B. Slomson). Models and Ultraproducts: An Introduction. North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1969. Reprinted by Dover, 2006.

References
  1. "Professor John L. Bell". University of Western Ontario. Retrieved 25 March 2010.
  2. Lambek, J. (1989). "Review: Toposes and local set theories: An introduction by J. L. Bell". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). American Mathematical Society. 21 (2): 325–332. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-1989-15849-7.
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