Otávio Bueno

Otávio Bueno
Born
Otávio Augusto Santos Bueno

1970[1]
Education
EducationUniversity of São Paulo (BSc)
University of São Paulo (MPhil)
University of Leeds (PhD)
ThesisPhilosophy of Mathematics: A Structural Empiricist View (1999)
Doctoral advisorsSteven French
Philosophical work
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic
InstitutionsUniversity of Miami
University of South Carolina
California State University
Main interestsPhilosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics
Notable ideasAgnostic nominalism in the philosophy of mathematics[2]
Websitehttps://web.as.miami.edu/personal/obueno/Site/Otavio_Bueno.html

Otávio Augusto Santos Bueno (born 1970) is a Brazilian philosopher who is professor of philosophy at the University of Miami.[3][4]

Otávio Bueno earned his master’s degree from the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters, and Human Sciences at University of São Paulo and holds a PhD from the University of Leeds.[5]

Books

As author

  • Bueno, Otávio; French, Steven (2018). Applying Mathematics: Immersion, Inference, Interpretation. Oxford Scholarship Online. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198815044.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-881504-4.[6]

As editor

References

  1. ^ Machuca, Diego E. (2018). "Epistemology in Latin America". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. Retrieved 2026-03-18.
  2. ^ "Philosophy of Mathematics: Set Theory, Measuring Theories, and Nominalism". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Retrieved 2026-03-18.
  3. ^ "Otávio Bueno". web.as.miami.edu. Retrieved 2025-06-12.
  4. ^ "Otavio Bueno". people.miami.edu. Retrieved 2025-06-12.
  5. ^ "Otávio Bueno Department Talk: "Dispensing with the Grounds of Logical Necessity" | Department of Philosophy". philosophy.sfsu.edu. Retrieved 2025-06-12.
  6. ^ Kasirzadeh, Atoosa; Brown, James Robert (January 2020). "Otavio Bueno and Steven French, Applying Mathematics: Immersion, Inference, Interpretation. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2018), 288 pp., $60.00 (cloth)". Philosophy of Science. 87 (1): 207–211. doi:10.1086/706095. ISSN 0031-8248.
  7. ^ "OTAVIO BUENO and OYSTEIN LINNEBO, eds, New Waves in Philosophy of Mathematics". Philosophia Mathematica. 18 (2): 143–143. 2010-06-01. doi:10.1093/philmat/nkq009. ISSN 0031-8019.
  8. ^ Baxter, Janella (September 2019). "Clearing New Ground: Book Review of Otávio Bueno, Ruey-Lin Chen and Melinda Bonnie Fagan (eds.): Individuation, Process, and Scientific Practices, Oxford University Press, 2018". Acta Biotheoretica. 67 (3): 265–271. doi:10.1007/s10441-019-09348-w. ISSN 0001-5342.