Syllabus

Class Notes

Readings

Handouts

Links

Class Notes

 

28 - Intuition-Based Autonomy Platonism Slides

27 - Plenitudinous Platonism Slides

26 - Marcus and the Explanatory Argument (Slides)

25 - Bangu and the Explanatory Argument (Slides)

24 - The Explanatory Indispensability Argument (Slides)

23 - Mathematical Recreation (Slides)

22 - The Eleatic and the Indispensabilist

21 - Melia's Weasel

19-20 - Dispensabilism (My slides on Field's project)

18 - Quine's Indispensability Argument

17 - Benecarraf's Problem (My Slides; Jason's Slides)

16 - Quine's Two Dogmas of Empiricism (Slides)

15 - Conventionalism (Slides)

14 - Intuitionism (Shaq's Slides)

13 - Hilbert (Jack's Slides)

12 - Frege (Jason's Slides)

11 - Cantor and the Infinite (Austin's slides); that the sum of the natural numbers is -1/12

10 - Mill's Radical Empiricism; Vi Hart on Pythagoras

9 - Kant (Slides)

7-8 - Modern Empiricism (Intro Material, Slides 7, Slides 8)

6 - Modern Rationalism II - Locke and Leibniz (Slides)

5 - Modern Rationalism I - Descartes and Leibniz (Intro Material, Axioms, Slides)

4 - Aristotle (Slides)

3 - Plato (Slides)

2 - Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans (Slides)

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