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British philosopher
Mary Leng is a British philosopher specialising in the
philosophy of mathematics and
philosophy of science . She is a professor at the
University of York .
Career
Leng studied as an undergraduate at
Balliol College ,
University of Oxford and as postgraduate student at the
University of Toronto .
[1] She worked at the
University of Cambridge from 2002 to 2006, and then the
University of Liverpool from 2006 to 2011. In 2007, she co-edited a
collection called Mathematical Knowledge with
Alexander Paseau and Michael Potter, which was published by
Oxford University Press ,
[2] and, in 2010, she published a
monograph called Mathematics and Reality , again with Oxford University Press. In Mathematics and Reality , Leng defends
mathematical fictionalism .
[3] Leng joined the
University of York in 2012, where she is now a professor.
[1]
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