title: Joan Weiner
text: # Joan Weiner
  
  Joan Weiner is an American philosopher and professor emerita of philosophy at Indiana University Bloomington, known for her books on Gottlob Frege.
  
  ## Education and career
  
  Weiner majored in mathematics at the University of Michigan, graduating with high distinction and honors in 1975. She completed a Ph.D. in philosophy at Harvard University in 1982.
  
  She became an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in 1981, with terms as a visiting faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pittsburgh. She was promoted to associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1988 and full professor in 1997, while also earning a master's degree in biostatistics from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1993. In 2002 she moved to Indiana University Bloomington, and in 2019 she retired as a professor emerita.
  
  ## Books
  
  Weiner is the author of:
  
  * Frege in Perspective (Cornell University Press, 1990)
  * Frege (Past Masters, Oxford University Press, 1999), revised and expanded as Frege Explained: From Arithmetic To Analytic Philosophy (Open Court Press, 2004)
  * Taking Frege At His Word (Oxford University Press, 2020)
  
  ## Recognition
  
  Weiner was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2000.
  
  