Abbreviated
Vita
Patricia Blanchette
Department of Philosophy
University of Notre Dame
100 Malloy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
blanchette.1@nd.edu
Employment







Fellowships
  • 2000 - Present: University of Notre Dame. Associate Professor, Dept. of Philosophy.
    • 2004 - Present: Director of Graduate Studies
  • 1993-2000: University of Notre Dame. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Philosophy.
  • 1990-1993: Yale University. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Philosophy.

  • 2007-08 Sabbatical Fellowship, American Philosophical Society
    • Project: A Fregean Conception of Logic
Education
1990

1983

Selected
Research

PhD - Philosophy, Stanford University
     Thesis Title: Logicism Reconsidered
BA - Philosophy, University of California, San Diego

Some Papers/Chapters
  • "Frege on Consistency and Conceptual Analysis," Philosophia Mathematica 15 (2007) pp 321-346
  • "Mathematical Objects and Identity," Situating Semantics, MIT Press 2007
  • "Logical Consequence,"Blackwell Guide to Philosophical Logic (Blackwell: Malden MA and Oxford 2001), 115-135.
  • "Realism and Paradox," Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 41, 3 (2000) 227-241.
  • "Models and Modality," Synthese 124,1 (July 2000) 45-72.
  • "Relative Identity and Cardinality," Canadian Journal of Philosophy 29, 2 (June 1999) 205-224.
  • "Frege and Hilbert on Consistency," Journal of Philosophy XCIII (July 1996) 317-336.
    • Reprinted in The Philosophers' Annual Vol XIX, 33-51;
    • Reprinted in Gottlob Frege: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (Reck and Beaney, Eds) Routledge 2005?
  • "Frege's Reduction," History and Philosophy of Logic 15 (1994) 85-103

Reviews
  • Review of A. George and D. Velleman's Philosophies of Mathematics in Philosophia Mathematica (Series III) 11, 3 (2003) 358-362
  • Review of Colin McGinn's Logical Properties in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2002.


  
Teaching


Some Recent Graduate Seminars
  • Topics in Philosophy of Logic
  • Frege 
  • Logic in Metaphysics and Metaphysics in Logic
  • Contemporary Philosophy of Mathematics
  • Intermediate Logic
Some Recent Undergraduate Courses
  • Honors Introduction to Philosophy
  • Introduction to Philosophy - Seminar
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Philosophy of Mathematics
  • Origins of Analytic Philosophy
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