Paul Benacerraf, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, died at his home in Princeton on Jan. 13. He was 93. A member of Princeton’s undergraduate Class of ...

Prof. Emeritus William Walker Tait, an acclaimed philosopher and mathematician at the University of Chicago, died March 15 in Naperville, Ill. He was 95. Known by colleagues as one of the most ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Alan Saunders: This week on The Philosopher's Zone, we're counting. We're counting lots of things, and ...

The William Reinhardt Memorial Lecture in the Philosophy of Mathematics was founded to commemorate the life of William Reinhardt, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Colorado from 1967 until ...

‘Another day's gone by and I didn't use algebra once.’ A philosophy of mathematics that connects it strongly with the real world gives a clearer insight into why everyone needs numeracy as well as ...

*Math can be a great clarifying haven from the evil fogs of philosophy. Except for, like, computational and simulated math where the process is never in a human head at all. And then there's that ...

The William Reinhardt Memorial Lecture in the Philosophy of Mathematics was founded to commemorate the life of William Reinhardt, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Colorado from 1967 until ...

To give a rational reconstruction and critical evaluation of the traditional account of mathematical knowledge inspired by Euclid’s Elements. All of us have mathematical knowledge, but it seems to ...