Philosophy of Mathematics Topics

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy already includes Philosophy of Mathematics entries on these topics:

Currently, authors are working on entries on these topics:

  • Cognitive Foundations and Epistemology of Arithmetic and Geometry
  • Diagrammatic Reasoning in Mathematics
  • Empiricism in Mathematics
  • Foundations of Mathematics
  • Hilbert's Program
  • Intuitionism
  • Modalism
  • Philosophy of Mathematics, Overview
  • Philosophy of Set Theory

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy desires entries on these topics:

  • Analysis, Nonstandard
  • Antirealism in the Philosophy of Mathematics
  • Berkeley
  • Brouwer
  • Calculus and Analysis, History of
  • Cantor
  • Cassirer, Ernst
  • Category Theory
  • Choice, The Axiom of
  • Complexity of Proof
  • Consistency in Mathematics
  • Constructibility and Mathematical Existence
  • Continuum Hypothesis
  • Dedekind
  • Descartes' Philosophy of Mathematics
  • Explanation in Mathematics
  • Feferman
  • Finitism
  • Formalism
  • Frege: Mathematics
  • Geometry, Non-Euclidean
  • Gödel
  • Kronecker
  • Lakatos, Imre
  • Leibniz's Philosophy of Mathematics
  • Mathematics: Platonic Approaches
  • Mathematics: Aristotelian Approaches
  • Mathematics: Kantian Approaches
  • Mathematics and Logic
  • Mathematics and Science
  • Metamathematics
  • Naturalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics
  • Newton's Philosophy of Mathematics
  • Peirce, Charles Sanders
  • Philosophy in Ancient Mathematics
  • Philosophy in Modern Mathematics
  • Philosophy in 19th and 20th Century Mathematics
  • Principia Mathematica
  • Proof
  • Reverse Mathematics
  • Tarski
  • Type Theory
  • Weyl

Area Editor: Julian C. Cole, Associate Professor, Philosophy Department. SUNY Buffalo State

 

If you have the relevant expertise and would like to write on one of these topics, please contact the area editor: Julian Cole at colejc@buffalostate.edu

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