Dr. Marco Panza
Professor, Program Director, Doctor of Science in Mathematics, Philosophy and Physics
Endowed Kennedy Chair in Philosophy
Philosophy, Schmid College of Science and Technology; Mathematics, Schmid College of Science and Technology
Office Location: Hashinger Science Center 218
Office Hours: By appointment
Email: panza@chapman.edu
- Education:
- The University of Milan, Bachelor of Science
University of Genoa, Doctor of Philosophy
Biography
Marco Panza (Ph.D., University of Genova, Italy 1990, and French HDR, EHESS, Paris,
2000) is Full Professor at Chapman University. He is the Program Director and Co-Founder
of the D.Sc. program in Mathematics, Philosophy, and Physics (MPP). Dr. Panza is also
affiliated with the IHPST (CNRS and University of Paris 1, Pantheon-Sorbonne as Research
Director in History and Philosophy of Sciences, which allows him to direct several
French Ph.D. students. His current research focuses on areas in the history and philosophy
of mathematics and logic. He is author of well over 100 articles and books. The most
relevant ones are listed in the bibliography below.
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Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications
- (with Daniele Struppa and Jean-Jacques Szczecinarz, ed.), The Mathematical and Philosophical Legacy of Alexander Grothendieck, Birkhäuser, Cham (Switzerland), 2025 [XVI+512 pp.].
- (with José Gil-Férez, P. Blaszczyk, Andrew Moshier, Alberto Naibo and Jean-Michel Salanskis) “A Euclidean proof of the Fourth Postulate”, Historia Mathematica, 70, 2025, pp. 10-30.
- “Économie épistémique en Mathématiques”, in P. Wagner (ed), Logique et épistémologie, Vrin, Paris, 2025, pp. 53-74.
- (with José Gil-Férez, Andrew Moshier, Alberto Naibo and Jean-Michel Salanskis), "Formalizing the Logic and Proofs of Book of Euclid’s Elements: Some Examples", Philosophia Scientiæ, 29(2), 2025, pp. 93–127
- (With Daniele Struppa), Three Infinity in Mathematics, Springer, Cham, to appear in 2025 5we are correcting the proofs)
- "Platonism, De Re, and (Philosophy of) Mathematical Practice”, in B. Sriraman, (ed.) Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Mathematical Practice, Springer, Cham, 2024, Vol. 3, pp. 2307-2335
- “Gastronomical Platonism”, in A. Klev, (ed.) The Architecture and Archaeology of Logic. Studies Dedicated to Göran Sundholm, Springer, Cham (CH), 2024, pp. 499-510.
- (with Giovanna Rita Giardina and Daniele Carlo Struppa) “Many infinities, or only one?”, Boll. Accad. Gioenia Nat. Sci. (Catania), 56 (386), 2023, pp. FP28–FP41.
- “Le géométrie de Descartes est-elle une extension de celle d’Euclide ?”, in O. Chevalier (sous la direction de), Descartes et ses mathématiques, Classiques Garnier, Paris, 2022, pp. 25-46.
- (With A. Arana, ed. by) Précis de philosophie de la logique et des mathématiques. Vol. 2. Philosophie des mathématiques, Ed. de la Sorbonne, Paris, 2022.
- (with F. Boccuni) “Frege’s Theory of Real Numbers: A Consistent Rendering” Review of Symbolic Logic, vol. 15, n. 3, 2022, pp. 624-667.
- (with T. Archibald, R. T. W. Arthur, G. Ferraro, J. Gray, D. Jesseph, J. Lützen, D. Rabouin and G. Schubring) “A Question of Fundamental Methodology: Reply to Mikhail Katz and His Coauthors”, The Mathematical Intelligencer, 2022, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-022-10217-7
- “Platonism, De Re, and (Philosophy of) Mathematical Practice”, forthcoming in Handbook of Philosophy of Mathematical Practice, Springer.
- “Analysis, Constructions & Diagrams in Classical Geometry”, Metodo. International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy, 9, 1, 2021., pp. 181-219.
- Modes de l’analyse et formes de la geometrie, Vrin (coll. Mathesis), Paris, 2021.
- “Anzahlen and Werthverläufe. Are there Objects other than Value-Ranges in Frege’s Universe? An Argument from Grundgesetze, §§ I.34-4”, in F. Boccuni and A. Sereni (eds.), Origins and Varieties if Logicism, Routledge, London, 2021, pp. 79-118.
- “Anzahlen et Werthverläufe : quelques remarques sur les §§ I.34-40 des Grundgesetze de Frege”, in E. Haffner and D. Rabouin (eds.), L’Épistémologie du dedans. Mélanges en l’honneur de Hourya Benis-Sinaceur, Classiques Garnier, Paris, 2021, pp. 141-189
- (with D. Napoletani et D. Struppa), “The Agnostic Structure of Data Science Method”, Lato Sensu, vol. 8, n. 2, 2021, pp. 44-57.
- (with F. Boccuni) “Frege’s Theory of Real Numbers: A Consistent Rendering” Review of Symbolic Logic, FirstView: DOI 10.1017/S17550203200026X.
- “Analysis, Constructions & Diagrams in Classical Geometry”, forthcoming in Metodo. International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy, 9, 1, 2021, forthcoming.
- “Qué podría haber sido la universalidad para Euclides”, in G. D. Secco, F. T. Sautter and O. M. Esquisabel, W. Sanz (eds), De Mathematicae atque philosophicae Elegantia. Notas festivas para Abel Lassalle Casanave, College Publications, UK, 2021, pp. 133-143.
- (With. Gianluca Longa), “Diagrams in Greek Geometrical Analysis”, Philosophia Scientiae, 25(3), 2021, pp. 81-102.