Michele Friend
Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Foggy Bottom Office: Phillips 510B
Office Hours: T 2:15-3:15
Phone: (202) 994-5002

Mount Vernon Office: ACAD 309
Office Hours: T 5:30-6:30
Phone: (202) 242-6708

Email: michele@gwu.edu

Areas of Interest

• Logic
• Philosophy of mathematics
• Philosophy of logic
• Philosophy of science
• Metaphysics
• Epistemology

Primary Courses Taught at GW

• Introduction to Logic
• Symbolic Logic
• Independent readings & research seminar in philosophy of mathematics

Selected Publications

• Book: Introducing Philosophy of Mathematics (Acumen, 2007)
• Co-Edited Volume: Induction, Algorithmic Learning Theory and Philosophy (Springer, 2007)
• Paper: in Proceedings for Logica ’05. “The Next Step for Structuralism”. Published September 2006.
• Paper: “Classical Dressage as a Form of Art” Translated into Slovene and published in Borek. February 2006.

Presentations, Activities, Work in Progress

• "The Relationship Between Philosophy and Mathematics" Presented July 2006 at the Association for Symbolic Logic European Summer Meeting.
• "Meinongian Structuralism" Presented in June 2006 at Logica ‘06
• I’m just beginning a book on a pluralist philosophy of mathematics
• Presently working on a co-written paper (with Michael Sigrist) on Qualia
• Presently working on a paper: A Reductio ad Absurdum argument for Naïve Logicism”