Mark Wilson is distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, a fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science and a Fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Before moving to Pittsburgh, he taught at the University of California-San Diego, the University of Illinois-Chicago, and Ohio State. His main research investigates the manner in which physical and mathematical concerns become entangled with issues characteristic of metaphysics and philosophy of language. He is also interested in the historical dimensions of this interchange; in this vein, he has written on Descartes, Frege, Duhem, and Wittgenstein. He also supervises the North American Traditions Series for Rounder Records.