08.2017 PhD in Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
05.2007 BA summa cum laude in Philosophy with Honors (minor in Mathematics), University of Pennsylvania
 |  | Post-doctoral |
present | Principal Investigator, Frege Among the Formalists, FWF ESPRIT Grant, University of Vienna | |
10.2021 | 03.2022 | IVC Fellow, Institute Vienna Circle, University of Vienna |
04.2021 | 09.2021 | Post-doctoral researcher, General and Computational Linguistics (65%) and Philosophy (35%), University of TĂŒbingen |
06.2019 | 03.2021 | Post-doctoral researcher, General and Computational Linguistics, University of TĂŒbingen |
10.2018 | 12.2018 | Visiting post-doctoral researcher, Free University Berlin |
09.2017 | 08.2018 | Berkeley Connect Fellow, University of California, Berkeley |
Pre-doctoral | ||
08.2009 | 08.2017 | PhD student in Philosophy (50%), University of California, Berkeley |
07.2008 | 07.2009 | Research coordinator, Computational Memory Lab, University of Pennsylvania |
Web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Bootstrap, XML, XSLT), Python (Django, Numpy/Scipy), Git, Unix (Debian GNU/Linux, others), Databases and SQL (PostgreSQL, SQLite), Emacs and Elisp
General and Computational Linguistics, UniversitĂ€t TĂŒbingen (FT, 06.2019â09.2021)
Computational Memory Lab, University of Pennsylvania (FT, 07.2008â07.2009)
Publishersâ Assistant (FT, 09.2007â06.2008)
Haematologic Technologies, Inc. (PT, Summers 2003â2006)
Kelly Writers House (PT, Semesters 2003â2007)
Lawrence, Richard. 2023. âFrege, Thomae, and Formalism: Shifting Perspectivesâ. Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy 11 (2) 1â23. https://jhaponline.org/jhap/article/view/5366
Lawrence, Richard. 2021. âFrege, Hankel, and Formalism in the Foundationsâ. Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy 9 (11) 5â27. https://doi.org/10.15173/jhap.v9i11.5007
Lawrence, Richard. 2021. âGiving the value of a variableâ. Kriterion â Journal of Philosophy 35. https://doi.org/10.1515/krt-2021-0007
Lawrence, Richard. Forthcoming. âReview of K. Hossack, Knowledge and the Philosophy of Number.â History and Philosophy of Logic. https://doi.org/10.1080/01445340.2022.2080373
Lawrence, Richard. 2017. âReview of K. Felka, Talking about Numbers: Easy Arguments for Mathematical Realism.â History and Philosophy of Logic 38 (4): 390â94. https://doi.org/10.1080/01445340.2017.1331988
Hinrichs, Marie, Richard Lawrence and Erhard Hinrichs. 2020. âExploring and visualizing wordnet data with GermaNet Roverâ. In: Proceedings of CLARIN Annual Conference 2020. Eds. C. Navarretta and M. Eskevich. Virtual Edition. http://office.clarin.eu/v/CE-2020-1738-CLARIN2020_ConferenceProceedings.pdf
Lawrence, Richard. 2019 (first release). germanet-common. https://github.com/Germanet-sfs/germanet-common
Lawrence, Richard and Marie Hinrichs. 2020 (first release). GermaNet Rover. https://weblicht.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/rover/
Lawrence, Richard. 2017. Nominalization, Specification, and Investigation. University of California, Berkeley. Committee: Professors John MacFarlane and Paolo Mancosu (co-chairs, Philosophy), Hannah Ginsborg (third member, Philosophy) and Line Mikkelsen (outside member, Linguistics). https://www.proquest.com/docview/2014397432
Lawrence, Richard. âWho are the persons, and how many are the numbers?â. Under review.
Lawrence, Richard and Justin Vlasits. Translators Introduction and Translation of Olga Hahn, âOn the Coefficients of a Logical Equation and their Relation to the Theory of Valid Inferenceâ. Under review.
2021 | Visiting Research Fellowship, Institute Vienna Circle, University of Vienna |
2019 | Master Class Travel Fellowship, Journal of the History of Philosophy |
2018 | Researcher Mobility Fund Fellowship, Free University Berlin |
2017 | Berkeley Connect Mentoring Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley |
2014 | Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of California, Berkeley |
2007 | Presidentâs Award for Undergraduate Research, University of Pennsylvania |
U: upper-level course
D: course taught in German
Summer 2023 | Philosophy of ScienceU |
Summer 2021 | Frege und FormalismusU |
Winter 2020â21 | Technology and Ethics |
Summer 2020 | Freges Grundlagen der ArithmetikD |
Winter 2019â20 | Reference to Numbers and Other Abstract ObjectsU |
Summer 2018 | Ancient Philosophy |
Summer 2017 | Introduction to Logic |
Summer 2015 | Ancient Philosophy |
Summer 2014 | Ancient Philosophy |
Additional teaching experience as Graduate Student Instructor includes upper-level courses in Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mathematics, Aristotle, and Philosophical Methods.