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May 18, 2024
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College Bulletin 2014-2015 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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PHIL 125. Philosophy of Mathematics
Mathematics is a discipline whose elegance, rigor, and stunning usefulness across a huge variety of applications has made it a central part of every school and college curriculum. But what exactly is mathematics about? At one level, the answer seems obvious: Mathematics is about numbers, functions, sets, geometrical figures, and so on. But what are these things? Do they exist? If so, where? And how do we come to know anything about them? If they do not exist, what makes mathematics true? This seminar will tackle these issues and look at what some of the great philosophers such as Plato, Descartes, Kant, and Wittgenstein have had to say about mathematics.
2 credits.
Not offered 2014-2015.
http://www.swarthmore.edu/philosophy
Philosophy
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