Doctoral advisor Justus Diller | Name Kai Wehmeier Academic advisor Justus Diller | |
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Fields Logic, Philosophy of logic, Philosophy of language, Philosophy of mathematics, Metaphysics, Early Analytic Philosophy (especially Frege and Wittgenstein) Institutions University of California, Irvine Alma mater University of California, Berkeley (M.A.); Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany (M.A.); Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster, Germany (Ph.D.) Institution University of California, Irvine | ||
Nationality United States, Germany | ||
Kai Frederick Wehmeier (born 1968) is a German-American philosopher and logician.
He is best known for the proof that the fragment of Frege's inconsistent logical theory of Grundgesetze der Arithmetik becomes consistent upon restricting the complexity of comprehension formulas in the second-order comprehension schema to
Wehmeier is currently a professor in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science and the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. He is also the director of UC Irvine's Center for the Advancement of Logic, its Philosophy, History, and Applications (C-ALPHA).