PMA Elections 2026: candidates, program overview and voting information
PMA
Dear PMA members,
The 2026 elections of the Philosophy of Mathematics Association will open on Monday, July 20, 2026, at 8:00 p.m. Paris time (6:00 p.m. UTC).
The ballot will remain open for fifteen days, until Tuesday, August 4, 2026, at 8:00 p.m. Paris time (6:00 p.m. UTC).
When voting opens, each eligible member will receive a separate email from the Philosophy of Mathematics Association via Balotilo containing a personal link to the secret ballot. The message may identify my address, frederi...@math.cnrs.fr, as that of the election organizer.
Please keep this link confidential and do not forward it. You will be able to use the same link to modify your vote until the ballot closes; only your final submitted vote will be counted.
If you have recently changed your email address, please let me know before the ballot opens.
THE CANDIDATES
The nomination period has been open for more than a month, and all the candidates listed below have agreed to stand for election.
The descriptions below indicate only each candidate’s institutional affiliation and the country in which it is located.
Officers
President
Frédéric Jaëck — Aix-Marseille Université, France.
Vice-President
Elaine Landry — University of California, Davis, United States.
Treasurer
Graham Leach-Krouse — Kansas State University, United States.
Board
Five Board members are to be elected from the following candidates:
Paola Cantù — Aix-Marseille Université, France.
William D’Alessandro — William & Mary, United States.
Timothy Gowers — University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and Collège de France, France.
Owain Griffin — Ohio State University, United States.
Teresa Kouri Kissel — Old Dominion University, United States.
Øystein Linnebo — University of Oslo, Norway.
Jean-Pierre Marquis — Université de Montréal, Canada.
Francisco Martínez-Aviña — University of California, Davis, United States.
David Rabouin — Université Paris Cité, France.
The list brings together scholars at different career stages, with a broad range of academic backgrounds, research interests, and geographical affiliations. We hope that this diversity will enable the next Executive and Board both to draw upon the experience of longstanding members of the field and to represent the researchers who will shape the future of the Association.
A SHORT MANIFESTO FOR A RENEWED PMA
This manifesto was prepared by Elaine Landry and Frédéric Jaëck and circulated in advance to a number of PMA members.
The Philosophy of Mathematics Association should remain a lively, open, and genuinely international organization. It has a distinctive role to play as a worldwide association devoted to the philosophy of mathematics: connecting individual researchers, research groups, and national or regional associations, while encouraging cooperation across disciplinary and geographical boundaries.
Its purpose is to represent the field while helping create the conditions in which new research, new collaborations, and new generations of scholars can flourish.
We propose to renew the PMA around four commitments.
First, membership should be accessible. Membership fees should be flexible, so that financial circumstances do not prevent students, early-career researchers, independent scholars, or colleagues in precarious positions from taking part in the Association.
Second, the PMA should serve as a practical resource for the community. A renewed website should provide regularly updated information about conferences, workshops, grants, fellowships, prizes, calls for proposals, and other opportunities relevant to the philosophy of mathematics. It should also include a voluntary, searchable directory through which members may present their research interests and areas of expertise, find potential collaborators, and develop new networks.
Third, the Association should create further opportunities for intellectual exchange. The PMA should seek to organize regular sessions at major philosophy, mathematics, and philosophy of science conferences. Graduate students and early-career researchers should be represented in these events, and the Association should support, whenever possible, lectures, workshops, and other initiatives devoted to emerging research.
Fourth, the PMA should fulfill its international vocation. It should strengthen relations among researchers, institutions, and associations in different countries; facilitate the circulation and cross-posting of information; and, resources permitting, support participation across national borders. Its international role should complement the work of national and regional organizations.
The PMA should remain a place in which different approaches to the philosophy of mathematics can coexist and enter into productive discussion. Its task is not to promote a single conception of the field, but to sustain its diversity, support younger scholars, encourage renewed relations between mathematics and philosophy, and make philosophical research on mathematics more visible, connected, and intellectually ambitious.
The forthcoming elections offer an opportunity to build on the work already accomplished and to continue developing the PMA as an accessible, active, and international organization that provides concrete intellectual and professional support to the entire community.
VOTING PROCEDURE
Election of the Officers
There will be separate votes for the positions of President, Vice-President, and Treasurer.
As there is one candidate for each office, members may vote Yes, No, or No opinion. “No opinion” will be treated as an abstention.
A candidate will be elected if they receive more Yes votes than No votes. Abstentions will be recorded but will not be included in determining whether the candidate has received a majority of valid votes.
Election of the Five Board Members
The Board election will use approval voting. Members may support as many or as few candidates as they wish.
The five candidates receiving the highest numbers of approval votes will be elected.
The two candidates receiving the highest numbers of votes will receive three-year terms; the candidates ranked third and fourth will receive two-year terms; and the candidate ranked fifth will receive a one-year term.
This initial distribution of terms will restore a staggered system of renewal, so that the entire Board will not ordinarily need to be replaced at the same time in future elections.
If a tie affects either election to the Board or the allocation of a term, a runoff ballot will be held among the tied candidates for the relevant position or term category. If the runoff also results in a tie, the result will be determined by lot in the presence of at least two PMA members who are not candidates in the election. The procedure and its outcome will be formally recorded.
We strongly encourage every eligible member to vote. Broad participation will give the newly elected Executive and Board a clear mandate and demonstrate the community’s support for the renewal of the PMA.
Best wishes,
Frédéric Jaëck