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Faculty
Janet Folina
Geoff Gorham
Martin Gunderson
Joy Laine
Diane Michelfelder
Karen Warren
Henry West
Bill Wilcox
Visiting Faculty
Amy Ihlan
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Faculty
Janet Folina
Professor
Office:
Old Main 100
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 2-3 p.m.
Telephone Number:
(651) 696-6159
E-mail: folina@macalester.edu
Classes for Spring 2008:
PHIL360 Philosophy of Science
Classes for Fall 2008:
PHIL120 Introduction to Symbolic Logic
PHIL365 Philosophy of Math
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,” in 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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