Series: Penn State Logic Seminar

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 2000

Time: 2:30 - 3:20 PM

Place: 307 Boucke Building

Speaker: Emily Grosholz, Philosophy Department, Penn State

Title: History and Necessity

Abstract:

Using some ideas of the French philosopher Cavailles, and Andrew
Wiles' proof of Fermat's Last Theorem to develop and illustrate my
position, I will argue against two current forms of mathematial
realism (Resnik's structuralism and Maddy's set theoretical
reductionism), in favor of my own version of realism, based on
Leibniz's notion of intelligibility.