Short about
Dirk Schlimm is an Assistant
Professor in the Department of Philosophy
and Associate Member in the School
of Computer Science
at McGill University.
He received his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in 2005, and studied previously at Trinity College Dublin and Technical University of Darmstadt.
Research interests
My research interests fall into the areas of history and philosophy of mathematics and science, epistemology, and cognitive science. In particular, I am interested in the developments in the 19th and early 20th century that led to the emergence of modern mathematics and logic, and in systematic investigations regarding axiomatics, analogical reasoning, concept formation, the use of notation, and theory development. I am also involved in editorial projects of the works of Bernays, Hilbert, and Carnap.
Recent news
- My paper "Methodological reflections on typologies for numerical notations" (with Theodore R. Widom) has appeared in Science in Context (April 2012).
- From January 14 to February 29, 2012 I was a Research Fellow at Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZIF) in Bielefeld, Germany.
- My paper "On the creative role of axiomatics. The discovery of lattices by Schröder, Dedekind, Birkhoff, and others" has finally appeared in Synthese (October 2011; accepted March 2009).
- My Erdös number is at most 4 (August 2011).
- McGill has installed a webcam on McGill campus, which sometimes shows my office (March 2011).
- Some soundbites from the Arts Undergraduate Research Event, published in The McGill Tribune (February 2011).
- In Winter 2010 I was on leave from McGill as a visiting researcher at Université Paris VII (Diderot), Département d'Histoire et Philosophie des Sciences and REHSEIS.
- Three collaborative papers of mine have appeared in a collection on Philosophy of Mathematics: Sociological Aspects and Mathematical Practice (April 2010).
- My paper on "Pasch's philosophy of mathematics" has appeared in Review of Symbolic Logic (March 2010).
- ... old news.