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0618-4067-01 | Mathematics in Philosophy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FACULTY OF HUMANITIES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Philosophy of mathematics has traditionally been one of great importance to philosophers interested in metaphysics and epistemology. Notably, issues related to the nature of mathematics, and our knowledge of mathematics, were central to the work of Kant, and played an important role in the work of thinkers ranging from Plato to Berkeley to Husserl to Bertrand Russell. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, philosophy of mathematics emerged as a discipline in its own right, thanks to seminal work of Frege and Russell and Dedekind, Wittgenstein, Brouwer, Hilbert, and Gödel, among others. By considering the influences of selected Kantian theses the students will be introduced to some of the classical questions in philosophy of mathematics.