Jan von Plato

Jan von Plato (Helsinque, 23 de junho de 1951) é um lógico, historiador da ciência e professor de filosofia na Universidade de Helsinque.

Estudou matemática e filosofia a partir de 1970 na Universidade de Helsinque, onde obteve em 1980 um doutorado.

Obras

Creating Modern Probability: Its Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy in Historical Perspective. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1994, ISBN 0-521-59735-8, 4. Aufl. 2000.
com Eckart Menzler-Trott: Gentzens Problem. Mathematische Logik im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland. Birkhäuser, Basel 2001, ISBN 3-7643-6574-9. Englische Bearbeitung von Craig Smorynski und Edward Griffor: Logic's Lost Genius. The Life of Gerhard Gentzen. Reihe History of Mathematics, Band 33. American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI und London Mathematical Society, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-8218-3550-0.
com Sara Negri: Structural Proof Theory. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2001, ISBN 0-521-79307-6.
com Sara Negri: Proof analysis. A Contribution to Hilbert's Last Problem. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2011, ISBN 978-1-107-00895-3.
Elements of Logical Reasoning. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2013, ISBN 978-1-107-03659-8.
Saved from the Cellar : Gerhard Gentzen’s Shorthand Notes on Logic and Foundations of Mathematics. Springer, Cham 2017, ISBN 978-3-319-42119-3.
The Great Formal Machinery Works: Theories of Deduction and Computation at the Origins of the Digital Age. Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0-691-17417-4 (erscheint Juni 2017; Verlagsseite).

Petri Mäenpää, Sara Negri, Aarne Ranta: Essays Dedicated to Jan von Plato on the Occasion of his 50th birthday. Helsingin yliopisto, 2001.
Dagfinn Follesdal: Scandinavia, in Philosophy. In: Edward Craig (Hg.): The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Routledge, London 1998. ISBN 0-415-07310-3.