Janet Folina is a contemporary American philosopher specializing in the philosophy of mathematics and epistemology. She is known for her work on Henri Poincaré's philosophy of mathematics and defenses of scientific realism, including analyses of abductive arguments for the reliability of scientific methodology.
Authored Poincaré and the Philosophy of Mathematics (1992), a major study of Poincaré's constructivist epistemology
Contributed to debates on scientific realism and the no-miracles argument
Developed analyses of Kantian and neo-Kantian themes in the philosophy of mathematics
Published extensively on intuition, structuralism, and the epistemology of mathematical knowledge
Professor of Philosophy at Macalester College