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Janet Folina serves as Professor of Philosophy at Macalester College, based in Old Main, Room 115, with contact email folina@macalester.edu and phone 651-696-6159.
Her academic credentials include:
- BA from Williams College (1982)
- MPhil from St. Andrews University (1983)
- PhD from St. Andrews University (1986)
Her research centers on philosophy of mathematics—particularly Henri Poincaré's work, foundations of mathematical proof, and 19th-20th century developments—with significant contributions to philosophy of science, epistemological foundations, and analytical philosophy. She actively engages with Kantian and Wittgensteinian frameworks, realism-antirealism debates, and conceptual analyses of objectivity and normativity in mathematical reasoning.
Publications spanning 1992-2007 reveal consistent exploration of mathematical intuition, Church's Thesis, and historical evolution of mathematical justification. Her work bridges logical formalism with practical mathematical activity, emphasizing visual reasoning and circularity arguments while contextualizing philosophical shifts from Poincaré to contemporary debates.
