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Gerhard Heinzmann is Professor of Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Lorraine at Nancy (France). Founder of the Research Center Laboratoire d’Histoire des Sciences et de Philosophie – Archives Henri –Poincaré (UMR 7117 of the CNRS), former Director of the Lorrain Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (MSH, 2007-2014), he is the editor of the Publications of the Henri-Poincaré Archives (Birkhäuser) and of the journal Philosophia Scientiae (Kimé). Author of numerous articles and books on the philosophy of Henri Poincaré, Ferdinand Gonseth, Jean Cavaillès and Paul Bernays, among them Zwischen Objektkonstruktion und Strukturanalyse. Zur Philosophie der Mathematik bei Henri Poincaré (1995) ; L’intuition épistémique. Une approche pragmatique du contexte de justification en mathématiques et en philosophie (2013), he was the President of the organizing Committee of the 14th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science (Nancy 2011), and is the President of the International Academy for Philosophy of Science, Brussels; he even is member of the Academia Europaea.