Curtis Franks

Curtis Franks has been in the Philosophy faculty at Notre Dame since 2006. He studied mathematics and philosophy at Rice University from 1997 until 2000 and earned a PhD. from the University of California in Irvine's Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science in 2006. He specializes in the history and philosophy of logic, proof theory, and the philosophy of mathematics.

Representative Publications

"Gentzen's Logical Calculi (the theory pamphlet)", Springer Nature, (forthcoming).

"Wittgenstein's wayward student: the unauthorized autobiography," in J. Kennedy and S. Arbeiter (eds.), Penelope Maddy on Set Theory and Naturalistic Method. Springer, Outstanding Contributions to Logic, 2024

"The context of inference." History and Philosophy of Logic 39(4), 2018

"The realm of the sacred, wherein we cannot draw an inference from  something which itself has been inferred." History and Philosophy of  Logic 33(1), 2012

"Stanley Tennenbaum's Socrates," in Kennedy and Kossak (eds), Set Theory, Arithmetic, and Foundations of Mathematics: Theorems, Philosophies. Cambridge University Press. 2011.