Joan Weiner

This article is about the philosopher. For the journalism scholar, see Joan Konner.

Joan Weiner is an American philosopher and professor emerita of philosophy at Indiana University Bloomington,^[1] known for her books on Gottlob Frege.

Education and career

Weiner majored in mathematics at the University of Michigan, graduating with high distinction and honors in 1975. She completed a Ph.D. in philosophy at Harvard University in 1982.^[1][2]

She became an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in 1981, with terms as a visiting faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pittsburgh. She was promoted to associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1988 and full professor in 1997, while also earning a master's degree in biostatistics from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1993. In 2002 she moved to Indiana University Bloomington,^[1][2] and in 2019 she retired as a professor emerita.^[1]

Books

Weiner is the author of:

• Frege in Perspective (Cornell University Press, 1990)^[3]
• Frege (Past Masters, Oxford University Press, 1999),^[4] revised and expanded as Frege Explained: From Arithmetic To Analytic Philosophy (Open Court Press, 2004)^[5]
• Taking Frege At His Word (Oxford University Press, 2020)

Recognition

Weiner was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2000.^[1][6]

References

1. "Joan Weiner, Guggenheim Fellow (2000)", University Honors & Awards, Indiana University, retrieved 2021-02-06
2. Curriculum vitae (PDF), 6 May 2008, retrieved 2021-02-06
3. Reviews of Frege in Perspective:
   • Angelelli, Ignacio (1992), MathSciNet, MR 1115212{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Currie, Gregory (July 1991), Mind, New Series, 100 (3): 419–421, doi:10.1093/mind/C.399.419, JSTOR 2254952{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Dauben, Joseph W. (September 1993), Isis, 84 (3): 618–619, doi:10.1086/356624, JSTOR 235719{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Dummett, Michael (March 1992), Journal of Symbolic Logic, 57 (1): 255–258, doi:10.2307/2275191, JSTOR 2275191{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Grossmann, Reinhardt (September 1991), The Review of Metaphysics, 45 (1): 156–157, JSTOR 20129166{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Haaparanta, Leila (October 1995), "Perspectives into analytical philosophy", Synthese, 105 (1): 123–139, doi:10.1007/BF01064106, JSTOR 20117452
   • Landesman, Charles (1993), Journal of the History of Philosophy, 31 (4): 643–645, doi:10.1353/hph.1993.0071{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Resnik, Michael D. (October 1992), The Philosophical Review, 101 (4): 893–895, doi:10.2307/2185950, JSTOR 2185950{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
4. Reviews of Frege:
   • Grattan-Guinness, Ivor, zbMATH, Zbl 0955.01006{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Jackson, Howard (June 2001), Philosophia Mathematica, 9 (2): 252–256, doi:10.1093/philmat/9.2.252{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • MacBride, Fraser (June 2004), Studia Logica, 77 (1): 130–133, JSTOR 20016614{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
5. Reviews of Frege Explained:
   • Michael, B. (May 2006), Philosophia Mathematica, 15 (1): 126–128, doi:10.1093/philmat/nkl024{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Peckhaus, Volker, zbMATH, Zbl 1095.03002{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Smith, Nicholas J. J. (January 2007), Philosophical Books, 48 (1): 78–79, doi:10.1111/j.1468-0149.2007.432_4.x{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
6. "Joan Weiner", Fellows, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, retrieved 2021-02-06

Further reading

• Greimann, Dirk (April 2008), "Does Frege use a truth-predicate in his 'justification' of the laws of logic? A comment on Weiner", Mind, 117 (466): 403–425, doi:10.1093/mind/fzn035