Pieranna Garavaso is an analytic philosopher and professor emerita at the University of Minnesota Morris.[1] Her areas of interest include epistemological and metaphysical issues in philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, and feminist epistemology. She received her doctorate in philosophy from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. She is the recipient of two distinguished teaching awards: the University of Minnesota, Morris Alumni Association Teaching Award in 2003[2] and the Horace T. Morse University of Minnesota Alumni in 2004.[3]