• Ted Sider; Fall 2023 office hours: Thursdays, 9:20-10:20 and by appointment
• Class meets in Scott Hall 214, Monday/Thursday 10:20-11:40
• Link to Canvas page

Announcements

• The second exam will be in our regular classroom on Thursday, December 21, at 9:00 AM.

Downloads

• Syllabus


• Midterm study guide


• Study guide for second exam


• Paper topics

• Handout: Introduction to Philosophy of Mathematics
• Handout: Platonism
• Handout: Kant
• Handout: The Parallel Postulate
• Handout: Mill
• Handout: The Move to Abstraction
• Handout: Modern Logic
• Handout: Logicism: Frege
• Handout: Logicism: NeoFregeanism
• Handout: A Foundational Crisis
• Handout: Game and Term Formalism
• Handout: Deductivism
• Handout: Hilbert's program
• Handout: Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems
• Handout: ZF Set Theory
• Handout: Set-theoretic platonism, epistemology and application
• Handout: Structuralism