Week | Date | Topic | Readings |
1 | January 7 | Course organization and background | - Euclid, Bk. I |
2 | January 14 | Overview of 19th century mathematics and its philosophy | - Detlefsen 1996, Gillies, 1999 |
- Modernism and mathematics | - Gray 2008, Chapter 1 | ||
3 | January 21 | No class (Preparation of presentation) | |
4 | January 28 | Kant and intuition in geometry [Tim Juvshik] | - Huggett 1999, Carson 1997 |
- Before modernism: Philosophy | - Gray 2008, Section 2.4 | ||
5 | February 4 | Projective geometry [Grace Cherng] | - Gray 1987, Lord 2013 |
- Before modernism: Geometry | - Gray 2008, Section 2.1 | ||
6 | February 11 | Non-Euclidean geometries [David Gaber] | - Gray 2011, Sec 8.3 – Ch. 10 |
7 | February 18 | Helmholtz [Atoosa Kasirzadeh] | - Helmholtz 1876, 1878; Richards 1977 |
- Mathematical modernism arrives: Modern geometry | - Gray 2008, Sec 3.1 | ||
8 | February 25 | Psychologism [Jose Larios Derbyshire] | - Kusch 1995, Jacquette 2003, Crane 2012 |
- Philosophy and mathematics in Germany | - Gray 2008, Section 4.2 | ||
March 4 | No class (Reading week) | ||
9 | March 11 | Hilbert's empiricism [Isabella Mariani] | - Hilbert 1899, Hilbert/Frege; Corry 2006 |
- Modernism avowed: Geometry | - Gray 2008, Section 4.1 | ||
10 | March 18 | Husserl on geometry [Eric Murphy] | - Jagnow 2006, da Silva 2012 |
11 | March 25 | Poincaré's conventionalism [Gabriel Larivière] | - Poincaré 1902-08, Stump 1991 |
- Mathematical modernism and psychology | - Gray 2008, Section 6.2 | ||
12 | April 1 | Cognitive science of geometry [Rose Liu] | - De Cruz 2009, Spelke 2011 |
13 | April 8 | Visualization in mathematics [Zander Defechereux] | - Feferman 2012, Palais 1999, Tall 1999 |
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