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Schedule

Logicism

Date Topic
1/29 Gottlob Frege, Sections 1-4, 55-69 of The Foundations of Arithmetic
2/5 Bertrand Russell, Chapters I, II, XVII, and XVIII of Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
2/12 Rudolf Carnap, "Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology" and "The Logicist Foundations of Mathematics"
2/19 Crispin Wright, "The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Abstraction"
2/26 Paul Benacerraf, "What Numbers Could Not Be."
3/5 W. V. Quine, "Carnap and Logical Truth."
3/19 Matti Eklund, "Neo-Fregean Ontology."

Intuitionism

Date Topic
3/26 Arend Heyting, "The Intuitionistic Foundations of Mathematics"
4/2 L.E.J. Brouwer, "Intuitionism and Formalism"
4/8 L.E.J. Brouwer, "Consciousness, Philosophy, and Mathematics"
4/16 Michael Dummett, "The Philosophical Basis of Intuitionistic Logic"
4/23 W.W. Tait, "Against Intuitionism: Constructive Mathematics Is Part of Classical Mathematics"
4/30 Dr. Kati Kish Bar-On's presentation