Philosophy 405: Seminar in Epistemology: Knowledge, Truth and Mathematics
Russell Marcus, Instructor. Email me.
Hamilton College, Spring 2008
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Plato
Euclid
Newton
Locke
Berkeley
Mill
Dedekind
Russell
Bernays
Heyting
Wittgenstein
Gödel
Grice
Turing
Shapiro
Benacerraf
Kripke
Katz
Balaguer
Burgess
Brown
Aristotle
Descartes
Leibniz
Hume
Kant
Cantor
Frege
Hilbert
Carnap
Brouwer
Ayer
Quine
Strawson
Dummett
Resnik
Field
Bonjour
Putnam
Lewis
Rosen
Maddy
Course Material
Links to Sites I Recommend for This Course
(This list will be extended through the term. The order of the links roughly follows the order of the syllabus.)
John Bell on Philosophy of Mathematics
Jeremy Avigad on Philosophy of Mathematics
Carl Posy's Philosophy of Mathematics lecture notes
Jonathan Lear on Aristotle's Mathematics
Descartes's Fifth Meditation, and all of Descartes's Meditations
Descartes's Principles of Philosophy
Chomsky, his position, a discussion of innateness and the poverty of the stimulus argument, and an argument against the poverty of the stimulus argument
Fiona Cowie on Chomsky and Innateness, from the SEP
David Chalmers, on the connection between conceivability and possibility
Modal Epistemology, on conceivability and possibility
Readings and Questions for Frege's Grundlagen
Logicism Reconsidered, by Agustin Rayo
A Film About the Hilbert Problems
Hilbert's Lament: Livin' in Cantor's Paradise
Wittgenstein's Private Language Argument and some supporting selections from the Philosophical Investigations that I organized for another course.
Peter Suber on Lowenheim-Skolem
Here's the Sandia report on how to deter human intrusion on the nuclear waste repository. See especially pp 150 et seq. and 262 et seq. Also, here is the DOE report; see pp 29 et seq.
Quine pages, maintained by his son
On the Kepler Conjecture, eventually solved with the help of computers
Mark McEvoy's Philosophy of Mathematics Review Grid
Links to Mathematics and Philosophy of Mathematics Blogs and Sites
The Mathematics Genealogy Project
Antimeta: Kenny Easwaren's Philosophy of Mathematics Blog
Do philosophers have math envy?
The n-Category Cafe: a blog on mathematics, physics, and philosophy
The Curtate Cycloid, the Cyloid, and the Prolate Cycloid
A Neat Geometry Video: Outside In
Other Philosophy Links
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Philosophy Research Network, home to philosophy papers in progress
The Science of Scientific Writing
Eddie Yeghiayan's Philosophy Bibliographies
A list of journals and conferences appropriate for undergraduates
Brian Leiter's Philosophy Blog
Thoughts, Arguments and Rants, Brian Weatherson's Philosophy Blog
The American Philosophical Association
TED, a Collection of Interesting Videos
Fun
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy
If the IRS had discovered the quadratic formula
The Gutless Meanies, with guest stars, Minstrel!