The final exam will be of the same basic format as the midterm. It will be cumulative. You will be required to answer some questions about material before the midterm and some about material after the midterm. The notes policy will also be the same as that of the midterm: open notes, including printouts of my online notes; closed book. That suggests that it is a good idea to have good notes.

Your exam grade is only 20% of your overall grade. If your curved grade on the final is greater than that on the midterm, I drop the midterm. Otherwise the exam grade is the average of the curved grades on the two exams.

If you wish to submit a new first paper for a higher grade, come talk to me. I shall decide whether to allow it on a case by case basis. ShaughanLavine - 26 Aug 2008 - 04:20 - 1.2 " class="twikiLink">more

PhilosophyofMathematicsSyllabus2007

Lecture Notes

PhilosophyofMathematicsFirstLecture

FregeonArithmetic

RussellonArithmetic

CurryFormalism

LogicismIntuitionismFormalism

BenacerrafWhatNumbersCouldNotBe

BernaysPlatonisminMathematics

GodelWhatIsCantorsContinuumHypothesis

PoincareOntheNatureofMathematicalReasoning

CorcoranConceptualStructureofClassicalLogic

IsomorphismandStructuralism

FirstOrdervsSecondOrderLogicandCategoricity

SomeTheoremsConcerningFirstOrderLogic

ModelsandReality

Balaguer

IntroductionandPlatonistResponsetoEpistemologicalChallengeContact

PlatonistResponsetoEpistemologicalChallengeNoContact

PlenitudinousPlatonism

NonUniqueness

FregeAgainstAntiPlatonism

DispensingwithMathematics

FictionalistApplicabilitywithoutDispensability

FictionalistExplanationofApplicabilityandPlatonistReplytoOckham

NoAnswer

-- ShaughanLavine - 06 Jan 2007