Course description: A survey of the major philosophical approaches to the nature of mathematics, mathematical truth and the ontology of numbers. Topics include the apriority and necessity of mathematical truth, logicism, formalism, intuitionism, views on infinity, Hilbert’s program, Platonism, naturalism, nominalism, fictionalism and structuralism.
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