Joan Weiner is an American philosopher and professor emerita of philosophy at Indiana University Bloomington, ^[1] known for her books on Gottlob Frege.

Education and career

Weiner majored in mathematics at the University of Michigan, graduating with high distinction and honors in 1975. She completed a Ph.D. in philosophy at Harvard University in 1982. ^{[1] [2]}

She became an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in 1981, with terms as a visiting faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pittsburgh. She was promoted to associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1988 and full professor in 1997, while also earning a master's degree in biostatistics from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1993. In 2002 she moved to Indiana University Bloomington, ^{[1] [2]} and in 2019 she retired as a professor emerita. ^[1]

Books

Weiner is the author of:

• Frege in Perspective (Cornell University Press, 1990) ^[3]
• Frege ( Past Masters, Oxford University Press, 1999), ^[4] revised and expanded as Frege Explained: From Arithmetic To Analytic Philosophy (Open Court Press, 2004) ^[5]
• Taking Frege At His Word (Oxford University Press, 2020)

Recognition

Weiner was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2000. ^{[1] [6]}

References

Further reading

• Greimann, Dirk (April 2008), "Does Frege use a truth-predicate in his 'justification' of the laws of logic? A comment on Weiner", Mind, 117 (466): 403–425, doi: 10.1093/mind/fzn035