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Credit points: 16.7 3rd year
Coordinator: Dr A Hazen.
Prerequisite: Some acquaintance with modern formal logic, such as Introduction to Formal Logic 161-221 or preliminary reading (a study guide will be available from the HPS office). Prerequisite: At least two 200-level HPS subjects or an approved equivalent.
Contact: Up to three hours of lectures, seminars or tutorials a week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
Students completing this subject should develop:
- familiarity with a variety of theoretical frameworks for the epistemology and metaphysics of mathematics;
- a sense of the mutual relevance of these frameworks to issues of method and axromatics.
Content:
Classical 20th-century formulations, and more recent literature, on the metaphysics and epistemology of mathematics.
Assessment:
Up to 5,000 words of written work.
Prescribed texts:
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Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Dr A Hazen
Prerequisite: Introduction to Formal Logic 161-013 or suitable preliminary reading in modern formal logic (a study guide will be available from the Philosophy Office)
Contact: 26 hours of lectures (two hours a week). Thirteen tutorials (one a week). Students are expected to devote a substantial number of hours to research reading
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
Students completing this subject should develop:
- familiarity with a variety of theoretical frameworks for the epistemology and metaphysics of mathematics;
- a sense of the mutual relevance of these frameworks to issues of method and axiomatics.
Content:
Classical 20th-century formulations on the metaphysics and epistemology of mathematics; recent developments; logicism; set-theoretic realism; intuitionism; notions of structure and abstraction.
Assessment:
Written work of up to 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
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Status: Official 1996 Date created: Oct 9 1995 Last modified: Oct 9 1995 Authorised by: Academic Registrar Email enquiries: Course_Information@registrar.unimelb.edu.au
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