Syllabus

Class Notes

Readings

Handouts

Links

Handouts

pdf Syllabus

Term Paper Assignment

Seminar Paper Assignment

Map of Classical Greece

Mathematical Axioms

Sally Cockburn's Gödel Handout

Constructive and Non-Constructive Proofs

 

Course Bibliography

Mark McEvoy's Review Grid

 

Reading Guides

1 - Pythagoreans
2 - Plato
3 - Aristotle
4 - Rationalists
5 - Empiricists
6 - Kant
7 - Mill
8 - Cantor
9 - Logicism
10 - Formalism
11 - Intuitionism
12 - Conventionalism
13 - Two Dogmas
14 - The Problem
15 - Indispensability
16 - Dispensability
17 - The Weasel
18 - The Eleatic and the Indispensabilist
19 - Mathematical Recreation
20 - The Explanatory Argument
21 - Nominalism and Explanation
22 - Platonism and Explanation
23 - Plenitudinous Platonism
24 - Autonomy Platonism