Faculty of the Group

Robert M. Anderson, Professor of Economics and Mathematics. Ph.D., Yale University, 1977. Nonstandard analysis.

• Office: 501 Evans Hall
• Phone: 510/642–5248
• E-mail:
• Web: http://emlab.berkeley.edu/facdir/anderson.html

Branden Fitelson, Assistant Professor of Philosophy. Philosophy of science, logic, automated reasoning.

• Office: 132 Moses Hall
• Phone: 510/642–0666
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• Web: http://www.fitelson.org

Leo A. Harrington, Professor of Mathematics Recursion theory, model theory, set theory.

• Office: 765 Evans Hall
• Phone: 510/642–3790
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John MacFarlane, Associate Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, 2000. Philosophy of language, philosophical logic, history and philosophy of logic.

• Office: 231 Moses Hall
• Phone: 510/642–3174
• E-mail:
• Web: http://sophos.berkeley.edu/macfarlane/

Paolo Mancosu, Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D., Philosophy, Stanford, 1989; joined Berkeley faculty in 1995. Logic, philosophy of mathematics.

• Office: 233 Moses Hall
• Phone: 510/642–5033
• E-mail:
• Web: http://philosophy.berkeley.edu/mancosu/

George Necula, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

• Office: 783 Soda Hall
• Phone: 510/643–1481
• Web: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~necula/

Christos H. Papadimitriou, Professor of Computer Science. Ph.D., Computer Science, Princeton University, 1976; joined Berkeley faculty in 1996. Complexity theory, theory of computation.

• Office: 689 Soda Hall
• Phone: 510/642–1559
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• Web: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~christos/

Sherrilyn Roush, Associate Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D., Philosophy, Harvard University, 1999; joined Berkeley faculty in 2006. Philosophy of science, epistemology.

• Office: 146 Moses Hall
• Phone: 510/642–2731
• E-mail:
• Web: http://philosophy.berkeley.edu/roush

Thomas Scanlon, Associate Professor of Mathematics Model theory, Diophantine geometry.

• Office: 723 Evans Hall
• Phone: 510/642–3665
• E-mail:
• Web: http://www.math.berkeley.edu/~scanlon/

Jack H. Silver, Professor of Mathematics.

• Office: 753 Evans Hall
• Phone: 510/642–2586
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Theodore A. Slaman, Professor of Mathematics. Ph.D., Mathematics, Harvard, 1981; joined Berkeley faculty in 1996. Recursion theory.

• Office: 719 Evans Hall
• Phone: 510/643–5695
• E-mail:
• Web: http://math.berkeley.edu/~slaman/

Hans D. Sluga, Professor of Philosophy. BPhil, Oxford University, 1962. History of logic, philosophy of mathematics.

• Office: 309 Moses Hall
• Phone: 510/642–7234
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John R. Steel, Professor of Mathematics. Ph.D., Logic and Methodology of Science, Berkeley, 1977; joined Berkeley faculty in 1996. Set theory, inner model theory, descriptive set theory.

• Office: 717 Evans Hall
• Phone: 510/642–2252
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Umesh Vazirani, Professor of Computer Science. Ph.D., Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley. Complexity theory, cryptography.

• Office: 671 Soda Hall
• Phone: 510/642–0572
• E-mail:
• Web: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~vazirani/

W. Hugh Woodin, Professor of Mathematics. Large cardinals, determinacy, set theory.

• Office: 721 Evans Hall
• Phone: 510/643–7644
• E-mail:
• Web: http://www.math.berkeley.edu/~woodin/

Emeritus Faculty

Ernest W. Adams, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy. Ph.D., Stanford, 1956; joined Berkeley faculty 1956. Philosophy of science, philosophical logic.

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John W. Addison Jr., Professor Emeritus of Mathematics. Theory of definability, descriptive set theory, model theory, recursive function theory.

• Office: 797 Evans Hall
• Phone: 510/642–2147
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David H. Blackwell, Professor Emeritus of Statistics and Mathematics. Bayesian statistics, game theory.

• Office: 309 Evans Hall
• Phone: 510/642–6446

Charles S. Chihara, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy. Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Washington, 1960. Philosophy of mathematics, philosophical logic.

• Office: 243 Moses Hall
• Phone: 510/642–0661
• E-mail:
• Web: http://philosophy.berkeley.edu/chihara/

Alan Code, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy. Ancient logic.

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William Craig, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy. Ph.D., Harvard University, 1951. Previous positions at Penn State; at Berkeley since 1960. Foundations of logic, algebraic logic, proof theory, universal algebra.

• Office: 243 Moses Hall
• Phone: 510/642–2722

Lester E. Dubins, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Statistics. Probability.

• Office: 869 Evans Hall
• Phone: 510/642–7019

Richard M. Karp, Ph.D., University Professor and Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, and of Mathematics. Computational complexity.

• Office: 621 Soda Hall
• Phone: 510/642–5799

Paul Kay, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Linguistics Semantics, pragmatics, syntax, lexicon.

• Office: 1203 Dwinelle Hall
• Phone: 510/643–5431

Benson Mates, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Philosophy. Philosophy.

Ralph McKenzie, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics; Distinguished Professor, Vanderbilt University. Ph.D., University of Colorado 1966; joined Berkeley faculty in 1966. General algebra, lattice theory, ordered sets, logic, algorithms.

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J. Frits Staal, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and South Asian Languages Linguistics, philosophy of language.

• Office: 314 Moses Hall
• Phone: 510/642–4564

Lotfi Zadeh, Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. Artificial intelligence, natural language processing, expert systems, fuzzy sets.

• Office: 729 Soda Hall
• Phone: 510/642–4959