Mary Leng


Mary Leng is a British philosopher specialising in the philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of science. She is a senior lecturer the University of York, where she has been based since 2012. Before this, she worked at the University of Liverpool and the University of Cambridge. She studied as an undergraduate at Balliol College, University of Oxford and as postgraduate student at the University of Toronto. In 2010, she published a monograph called Mathematics and Reality with Oxford University Press. In the book, she defends mathematical fictionalism.