James Robert Brown FRSC (born 1949) is a Canadian philosopher of science.
He is an emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto.
In the philosophy of mathematics, he has advocated mathematical Platonism, visual reasoning, and in the philosophy of science he has defended scientific realism mostly against anti-realist views associated with social constructivism.
Elected: Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften) 2004, Royal Society of Canada 2007, Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences 2010 Brown was born in Montreal, Quebec.
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