Macbeth received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry at the University of Alberta in 1977 before beginning her philosophical studies.
[1] Macbeth is the author of two books, Frege’s Logic (2005) and Realizing Reason: A Narrative of Truth and Knowing (2014).
She argues that philosophers and mathematicians alike have failed to recognize the revolutionary powers of Begriffsschrift in its expressive and demonstrative capacities.
[2] Realizing Reason, her most recent book, takes a Hegelian approach to the philosophy of mathematics and traces developments in philosophy, logic, mathematics, and physics beginning with Aristotle in order to illuminate how (pure) reason has come to be realized as a power of knowing.
Macbeth argues that with her new reading of Frege, we can finally break out of the Kantian framework that remains in place even in twentieth-century analytic philosophy and thereby finally understand how contemporary mathematics enables real extensions of our knowledge on the basis of strictly deductive reasoning.