Philosophy : Seminar in Epistemology: Knowledge, Truth and Mathematics

Russell Marcus, Instructor. Email me.

Hamilton College, Spring 2008

Class Notes

Class 28 (and last): Tymoczko

Class 27: Field and Balaguer

Class 26: More on structuralism, and a bit on Field

Class 25: Structuralism

Class 24: More Quine, and some Benacerraf

Class 23: Quine

Class 22: Benacerraf's Mathematical Truth

Class 21: 2500 years of epistemology, Some Godel, Some Tarski, Some Benacerraf

Class 20: Gödel Platonism

Classes 18-19: Wittgenstein

Class 17: Carnap

Class 16: Intuitionism

Class 15: Gödel

Class 14: Hilbert

Class 13: Frege

Classes 11-12: Cantor

Class 10: Mill

Classes 8-9 (2/13-18): Kant

Class 7 (2/11): Hume

Class 6 (2/6): Descartes, Locke, and Leibniz

Class 5 (2/4): Just a bit on Descartes

Class 4 (1/30): Aristotle

Class 3 (1/28): Plato

Class 2 (1/23): Definitions, and Pythagoreans

Class 1 (1/21): Introduction, Picture Proofs, and Brown's Mathematical Image