Joan Bertran San-Millán

Academic Degree:
PhD
Professional Category:
Assistant Professor

Research group: LanCog

I am an assistant professor at Complutense University of Madrid. I studied Philosophy at the University of Barcelona (BA, 2009), where I completed my MA (2010) and PhD (2016) with a dissertation on Gottlob Frege’s logic. In 2016, I lectured at the University of Barcelona. Between 2017 and 2021, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. From 2021 to 2025, I was an FCT junior researcher, first at the Centre for the Philosophy of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (CFCUL) and then at CFUL and LanCog.

 

My research focuses on the history of early mathematical logic, with an additional interest in the history and philosophy of mathematics, theories of truth, feminist epistemology, and the history of philosophy. I am currently working on a historical and philosophical analysis of the formalisation of logic and mathematical theories in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In particular, my research examines the relationship between Peano’s, Russell’s, and Hilbert’s developments in mathematical logic.

Email: joanbert@ucm.es

Selected Publications

(2024). Peano’s Geometry: From empirical foundations to abstract development. In: Cantù, P.; Schiemer, G. (Eds.). Logic, Epistemology, and Scientific Theories – From Peano to the Vienna Circle. Cham: Springer, 11–35 – Link.

(2022). Peano’s structuralism and the birth of formal languages. Synthese, 200 (4), 314 – Link.

(2021). Lingua characterica and calculus ratiocinator: The Leibnizian background of the Frege-Schröder polemic. Review of Symbolic Logic, 14 (2), 411–446 – Link.

(2020 – with Calixto Badesa). Begriffsschrift’s Logic. Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 61 (3), 409–440 – Link.

(2017 – with Calixto Badesa). Function and argument in Begriffsschrift. History and Philosophy of Logic, 38 (4), 316–341 – Link.
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