Sorin Bangu

Sorin Bangu is Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen, Norway. Before joining the department in the Fall of 2012, he taught at University of Cambridge, History and Philosophy of Science Dept. (2008-2010) and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Philosophy Dept. (2010-2012) He received a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Toronto and studied philosophy and mathematics at Univ. of Bucharest. His area of specialization and competence is contemporary philosophy of science. More specifically, his work straddles the boundaries of philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of physics, with a component in the foundations of probability and statistics. He has longstanding interests in epistemology and the history of analytic philosophy, focusing on Quine and Wittgenstein. He is involved in the activities of the Wittgenstein Archives at Univ. of Bergen and member in the editorial board of the Springer book series Nordic Wittgenstein Studies. He published many articles in these fields and recently edited a book, ‘Naturalizing Logico-Mathematical Knowledge: Approaches from Philosophy, Psychology and Cognitive Science’, forthcoming from Routledge in 2018. In 2012 he published a monograph, ‘The Applicability of Mathematics in Science: Indispensability and Ontology’ (Palgrave Macmillan).