Joan Bertran-San-Millán

I am an assistant professor at the Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Complutense University of Madrid. I am also an associate member of the LanCog group of the Center of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon.

Previously, I was a junior researcher at the LanCog group and at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, and a a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Before that, I was a lecturer at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Barcelona, where I taught Logic for undergraduates.

I completed my PhD in the Pure and Applied Logic programme of the University of Barcelona, under the supervision of Calixto Badesa and José Martínez. My dissertation develops a heterodox reconstruction of Frege’s early logic and argues against its usual interpretation as a second-order logic.

My research focuses on the history of early mathematical logic. I am currently engaged in a historical and philosophical analysis of the formalisation of logic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In particular, my current research examines the relationship between the developments of Russell and Hilbert in mathematical logic. I have also worked on Frege’s early logic, specifically his initial endorsement of logicism, as well as the relationship between Frege and Schröder’s conceptions of logic. Additionally, I have explored Peano’s logic and his axiomatizations of arithmetic and elementary geometry.

I am also interested in the history and philosophy of mathematics, feminist epistemology, theories of truth and the history of philosophy.

My CV.

Note: My name is “Joan”, and my surname is “Bertran San Millán”. In Spain, it is customary to retain the surnames of both parents; “Bertran” is my father’s surname, while “San Millán” is my mother’s surname. Although I typically use “Bertran” in informal contexts, I prefer to retain both surnames in academic settings. To avoid confusion, I add hyphens to my surname, rendering it as “Bertran-San-Millán”, as if it were a single, long whole. If you cite any of my papers, please use “J. Bertran-San-Millán”.