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28 - The Platonist Against the Explanatory Argument (Slides)

27 - The Nominalist Against the Explanatory Argument (Slides)

26 - The Explanatory Indispensability Argument (Slides)

25 - Mathematical Recreation

24 - The Eleatic and the Indispensabilist (Slides)

23 - The Weasel (Slides)

21-2 - Field's Dispensabilist Project

21 - Finishing Quine, Starting Field - slides only

20 - The Indispensability Argument (Slides)

19 - Two Dogmas

18 - Benacerraf's Problem (Slides)

17 - Conventionalism (Slides)

16 - Intuitionism

14 - Gödel Platonism

13 - Hilbert and Gödel

12 - Frege (Cantor-Frege Slides)

11 - Cantor (Slides)

10 - Mill

8-9 - Kant (Slides)

7 - Modern Empiricism

6 - Rationalists II (Slides)

5 - Rationalists I (Slides)

4 - Aristotle (Slides)

3 - Plato

2 - Pythagoreans (Slides)

1 - Introduction: Proof and the Mathematical Image (Slides)