Gaifman: Epistemic and Ontological Problems Concerning Mathematics

HARVARD/MIT LOGIC SEMINAR
Epistemic and Ontological Problems Concerning Mathematics
Haim Gaifman (Columbia University)
Tuesday, April 30, 2013, at 4:15 PM
Fong Auditorium (Boylston Hall 110), Harvard University

Abstract. Philosophy of mathematics is confronted with two major questions: (i) How do we come to know mathematical propositions? (ii) What is the nature of mathematical truth? Attempts to give satisfactory answers to one of the questions have resulted in unsatisfactory accounts regarding the other. I shall outline an approach intended to do justice to both questions. This is an ongoing work.

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