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Faculty
Janet Folina
Geoff Gorham
Martin Gunderson
Joy Laine
Diane Michelfelder
Karen Warren
Bill Wilcox
Visiting Faculty
Amy Ihlan
Retired Faculty
Henry West
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Faculty
Janet Folina
Professor
Office:
Old Main 106
Office Hours:Tue 9:30-11:00, Wed 3:30-4:30 & by appointment.
Telephone Number:651.696.6159
E-mail: folina@macalester.edu
Spring 2010
PHIL 115-01: Problems of Philosophy
PHIL 369-01: Advanced Symbolic Logic
Fall 2009
PHIL 120-01/-02: Introduction to Symbolic Logic (2 sections)
PHIL 360: Philosophy of Science
Current Research Interests: I am currently very interested in 19th Century philosophy of mathematics, including the work of Hamilton, De Morgan, and Bolzano. I continue to be interested also in 20th Century philosophy of mathematics, including Poincaré and Weyl. I am also interested in the topic of justification in mathematics quite generally; in particular, the role of visual evidence and other less "rigorous" forms of justification, and their relation to mathematical proofs.
Key publications or presentations:
- Poincare and the Philosophy of Mathematics. London: MacMillan and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.
- "Logic and Intuition in Poincare's Philosophy of Mathematics" (selected papers from International Congress on Henri Poincare). Akademic Verlag and Albert Blanchard, 1996.
- "Putnam, Realism and Truth." Synthese (1995), 141-152.
- “Church’s Thesis: Prelude to a Proof”, Philosophia Mathematica, Series 3, Vol. 6, 1998.
- “Pictures, Proofs and Mathematical Practice”, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 1999.
- “Poincaré’s Circularity Arguments for Mathematical Intuition”, The Kantian Legacy in Nineteenth Century Science, M. Friedman and A. Nordmann, eds., MIT press, Cambridge, MA, 2006.
- “1790-1870: Some Developments in the Philosophy of Mathematics”, The Cambridge History of Nineteenth Century Philosophy, Allen Wood, ed., Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
- “Church’s Thesis and the Variety of Mathematical Justifications”, Church’s Thesis After 70 Years, Adam Olzewski ed., Ontos Verlag, 2007.
Please see additional publications in the Faculty Publication Database.
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