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Philip Welch

Prof Philip Welch

PhD Mathematics

Office: 2.11 Howard House
Department of Mathematics
University Walk, Clifton, Bristol BS8 1TW, U.K.

Telephone: +44 (0)117 331-1807
Extension: 11807
Mail: p.welch
http://www.maths.bris.ac.uk/~mapdw

Education

BSc Mathematics
University of London
MSc Mathematics
University of Oxford
PhD Mathematics
University of Oxford

Honours

  • Inamori Young Researchers Prize (1998)
  • Editor Scientiae Mathematicae Japonicae
  • Subject Editor of the "Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy" for Philosophy of Mathematics


Publications

On the strength of mutual stationarity (2006)
P. Koepke & P.D.Welch
Set Theory. Centre de recerca Matematica, Barcelona, 2003-2004
Editors: Joan Bagaria and Stevo Todorcevic.
Publisher: Birkhauser
URL provided by the author

Full list of publications

Research Interests

Axiomatic Set Theory: strong axioms of infinity & large cardinals; interactions with the determinacy assumptions on infinite perfect information games; singular cardinal combinatorics. Applications of mathematical logic and set theory to: philosophical logic (theories of truth; possible world semantics; mathematical philosophy and philosophy of science) and to: the theory of generalised inductive definitions; models of computation.


Research Themes


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