John P. Burgess

John Burgess is an American philosopher, born on 5 June 1948, who is John N. Woodhull Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, where he specializes in logic and the philosophy of mathematics. He received his doctorate from the Group in Logic and Methodology of Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His interests range over logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the history of analytic philosophy and selected topics in metaethics and the philosophy of mind, and he has written numerous articles on these subjects. His books include A Subject with No Object, written with Gideon Rosen, on strategies for the nominalistic reconstrual of mathematics, Fixing Frege, Computability and Logic, written with George Boolos and Richard Jeffrey, Rigor and Structure, and a 2022 Cambridge Elements volume on set theory. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012 and delivered the 37th Gödel Lecture in 2026.