Philosophy of Mathematics

• Ted Sider; Spring 2025
• Class meets in the Philosophy Seminar Room, 106 Somerset Street, 5th floor, Tuesdays 9:00-12:00
• Canvas course page


• Syllabus

Class handouts

• Intro to phil of math
• Platonism
• Kant
• Noneuclidean geometry
• Mill
• The move to abstraction
• Modern logic
• Logicism
• Neo-Fregeanism
• Foundations and crisis
• Formalism and deductivism
• Hilbert (and intuitionism)