University of Minnesota, Department of Philosophy Faculty

Roy Cook PhD Ohio State University

cookx432@umn.edu

Area Editor: Philosophy of Mathematics, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy


Please contact me by e-mail if you are interested in contributing an article on one of the following desired topics to the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy:

Abstraction
Actual Infinity
Analysis (Real and Complex) and Philosophy
Applicability of Mathematics
Aristotle: Mathematics
Arithmetic and Philosophy

Basic Law V
Benacerraf’s Dilemma
Bolzano, Bernard
Brouwer, L.E.J
Burali-Forti Paradox

Caesar Problem
Cardinal Numbers
Category Theory
Constructive Mathematics
Continuum Hypothesis
Curry, Haskell

Dedekind, Richard

Empiricism in Mathematics
Explanation in Mathematics

Feferman, Solomon
Fictionalism in Mathematics
Field, Hartry
Finitism
Formalism
Foundations of Mathematics
Frege, Gottlob: Mathematics

Hilbert’s Programme
Hume’s Principle

If–Then–ism
Impredicativity
Incompleteness Theorems
Indefinite Extensibility
Indispensibility Argument
Intuitionism
Iterative Conception of Set

Kant, Immanuel: Mathematics

Limitation of Size Conception of Set
Logicism

Modal Structuralism

Naïve Set Theory
Naturalism in Mathematics
Neo-Logicism
New Foundations
Nominalism
Non-Standard Analysis
Non-Well Founded Set Theory

Ordinal Numbers

Philosophy of Mathematics
Philosophy of Mathematics in Modern Philosophy
Plato: Mathematics
Platonism in Mathematics
Potential Infinity
Predicativity
Procedural Postulationalism
Proper Class
Pythagoreanism

Quine, W.V.O. : Mathematics

Reverse Mathematics
Russell: Mathematics

Set Theory
Set Theoretic Realism
Structuralism

Vicious Circle Principle

Zermelo-Fraenkel Set Theory



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