James Franklin (philosopher)

James Franklin, Australian historian of ideas and philosopher, was born in 1953 in Sydney, and educated at St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill, NSW. His undergraduate work was at the University of Sydney (1971–74), where he attended St John's College and he was influenced by philosophers David Stove and David Armstrong. He completed his PhD in 1981 at University of Warwick, on algebraic groups. Since 1981 he has taught in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New South Wales.

His research areas include the structuralist philosophy of mathematics and the 'formal sciences' (he is the founder of the Sydney School in the philosophy of mathematics), Australian Catholic history, the parallel between ethics and mathematics (work for which he received the 2005 Eureka Prize for Research in Ethics), restraint, the quantification of rights in applied ethics, and the analysis of extreme risk. Franklin is the literary executor of David Stove.

In 2008 he set up the .

See also

• Continuity thesis
• Formal science

Publications

Franklin wrote several books and articles:

• 1996 and 2011, ISBN 978-1-8761-9200-6, originally published as Introduction to Proofs in Mathematics, in 1988.
• 2001, ISBN 978-0-8018-7109-2;
• 2003, ISBN 978-1-8764-9208-3;
• 2006, ISBN 978-0-9758-0154-3;
• 2007, (edited) ISBN 978-1-921421-00-6
• 2009, ISBN 978-1-59403207-3

Articles, a selection:

• 1994, , in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Volume 25, No. 4,......
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