Emily R. Grosholz
Penn State (University Park, PA 16802-1503)
FA-50489-04
Fellowships for University Teachers
Research Programs
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[Grant products]
Totals:
$24,000 (approved)
$24,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
7/1/2004 – 12/31/2004
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Analysis, History, and Intelligibility: An Essay on the Philosophy of Mathematics
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.
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