Douglas Blue

Assistant Professor of Philosophy
University of Pittsburgh
doug.blue[at]pitt.edu

I’m interested in set theory and the history of analytic philosophy.

Papers

The failure of square at all uncountable cardinals is weaker than a Woodin limit of Woodin cardinals
with Paul Larson and Grigor Sargsyan. Preprint.

Can philosophy do anything for set theory?
Journal of Philosophical Logic.

Nairian models
with Paul Larson and Grigor Sargsyan. Preprint.

AD+ implies ω₁ is a club Θ-Berkeley cardinal
with Grigor Sargsyan. Forum of Mathematics, Sigma.

What is it to be a solution to Cantor’s Continuum Problem?
The Journal of Philosophy.

Infinite inference and mathematical conventionalism
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

The generic multiverse is not going away
The Review of Symbolic Logic.

Provably Δ₁ games
with Juan Aguilera. Journal of Symbolic Logic.

Models of the axiom of determinacy and the foundations of set theory
PhD thesis, Harvard University, 2023.

Other

CMU Core Model Theory Seminar
Seminar on the consistency strength of total failure of square, Spring 2026.

Contentualness and Formalism
Spring 2026 seminar.

Nairian models and forcing axioms
Luminy Set Theory Workshop, 2025.