Personal details |
Name |
Professor Philip
Welch |
Job title |
Professor of Pure Mathematics
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Department |
School of Mathematics University of Bristol
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Work contact details |
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Qualifications |
B.Sc.(Lond.), M.Sc., D.Phil.(Oxon.) |
Professional details |
Membership of professional bodies |
London Mathematical Society Association for Symbolic Logic
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Keywords |
axiomatic set theory
mathematical logic
set theory
mathematical philosophy
models of computation
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Areas of expertise |
Axiomatic Set Theory: strong axioms of infinity & large cardinals; interactions with the determinacy assumptions on infinite perfect information games; singular cardinal combinatorics. Applications of mathematical logic and set theory to: philosophical logic (theories of truth; possible world semantics; mathematical philosophy and philosophy of science) and to: the theory of generalised inductive definitions; models of computation.
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Languages (other than English) |
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Media experience |
Radio & TV interview.
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