Beau Madison Mount
Sir Peter Strawson Fellow and Praelector in Philosophy
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Teaching
For the college, I teach papers on a number of topics in theoretical philosophy, including logic at all levels, Knowledge and Reality (the metaphysics and epistemology paper), and the philosophy of mathematics. In Michaelmas Term 2023, I shall also be responsible for the lectures for the Philosophy of Mathematics paper for the philosophy faculty.
Research
Most of my work centres on philosophical logic and philosophy of mathematics, but I have interests in a number of other areas of philosophy, including metaphysics, formal epistemology, the history of early analytic philosophy, seventeenth-century rationalism, and just war theory.
I’ve published papers (often in collaboration with other philosophers) on formal theories of truth, the epistemology of universal claims, abstraction principles, the nature of logical consequence, and other topics. I am currently beginning work on a book about the philosophy of set theory, with a focus on post-1960 developments in the field. I also have shorter papers in progress on the epistemology of mathematical knowledge, the interpretation of second-order logic, and the ontology of money.
Selected Publications
(2023a) (with Catharine Diehl). 鈥淭he Metaphysics of Opacity鈥�. Philosophers’ Imprint 23/1: 1鈥�29.
(2023b) (with Philipp Koralus, Vincent Wang, and Sean Moss) 鈥淧redicate Reasoning鈥�. In Philipp Koralus, Reason and Inquiry: The Erotetic Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 128鈥�87.
(2021a) (with Rachel Elizabeth Fraser). 鈥淎bsolutely General Knowledge鈥�. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 103: 547鈥�66.
(2021b) 鈥淚nvariance without Extensionality鈥�. In The Semantic Conception of Logic: Essays on Consequence, Invariance, and Meaning, ed. Gil Sagi and Jack Woods (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 80鈥�96.
(2021c) (with Daniel Waxman) 鈥淪table and Unstable Theories of Truth and Syntax鈥�. Mind 130: 439鈥�73.
(2019) 鈥淎ntireductionism and Ordinals鈥�. Philosophia Mathematica 27: 105鈥�24
(2016) 鈥淲e Turing Machines Can’t Even Be Locally Ideal Bayesians鈥�. Thought: A Journal of Philosophy 5: 285鈥�90.
(2015) 鈥淗igher-Order Abstraction Principles鈥�. Thought: A Journal of Philosophy 4: 228鈥�36.