| FA-50489-04 | Research Programs: Fellowships for University Teachers | Emily R. Grosholz | Analysis, History, and Intelligibility: An Essay on the Philosophy of Mathematics | 7/1/2004 - 12/31/2004 | $24,000.00 | Emily | R. | Grosholz | | | | Penn State | University Park | PA | 16802-1503 | USA | 2003 | Philosophy, General | Fellowships for University Teachers | Research Programs | 24000 | 0 | 24000 | 0 |
My project is to write a book that will bring philosophy of mathematics into deeper relation with both the history of mathematics and the history of philosophy. Entitled "Analysis, History and Intelligibility: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mathematics," it will revive certain important features of 17th c. Rationalist epistemology (the use of analysis as a search for conditions of intelligibility, the subordination and deferral of sense perception) and focus on problems that have been neglected by 20th c. Anglo-American philosophy of mathematics: how to account for the diversity of mathematical objects, how to relate justification procedures to discovery procedures, how to relate mathematics to history. |