Historian and philosopher of logic and computation. He received his doctorate from the University of Canterbury and is currently a JSPS International Research Fellow at Kobe University, Japan.


Zhao Fan is a historian and philosopher of logic and computation. He received his doctorate from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand in 2022, under the guidance of Professor Jack Copeland and Professor Diane Proudfoot. He is currently a JSPS International Research Fellow at Kobe University, Japan. He is also affiliated with the Vrije Universiteit Brussels as an FWO Postdoc Fellow. He works mainly on the development of modern logic and computer in the first half of the 20th century, focusing on the works of Turing, Gödel, Wittgenstein, and von Neumann. He is also interested in the early history of analytical philosophy, and the history and philosophy of AI.