David Corfield
David Neil Corfield is a British philosopher specializing in philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of psychology. He is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Kent. Education. Corfield studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and later earned his MSc and PhD in the philosophy of science and mathematics at King's College London. His doctoral advisor was Donald A. Gillies. Work. Corfield is the author of "Towards a Philosophy of Real Mathematics" (2003), in which he argues that the philosophical implications of mathematics did not stop with Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorems. He has also co -authored a book with Darian Leader about psychology and psychosomatic medicine, "Why Do People Get Ill?" (2007). He joined the University of Kent in September 2007 in which he is currently a Senior Lecturer. He is a member of the informal steering committee of "n"Lab, a wiki-lab for collaborative work on mathematics, physics, and philosophy.