The Milesian School was based in Miletus and produced three great thinkers who were the pioneers of philosophy in ancient Greece.

“It is no use asking for the impossible, such as, say, the exact wiring diagram for a cubic millimeter of brain tissue and the way all its neurons are firing,” Crick wrote in Scientific America ...

“His brilliant work in the philosophy of mathematics has achieved classic status. He was a demanding teacher — but one who was also extraordinarily kind and encouraging to graduate students and more ...

In his book The Mathematical Universe, mathematician William Dunham wrote of John Venn’s namesake legacy, the Venn diagram, “No one in the long history of mathematics ever became better known ...

Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? The answers to this question are an important part of the philosophy of mathematics ... mathematicism, and logicism. Other, alternative positions ...

Philosophy often flourishes in the aftermath ... from the mid-nineteen-twenties to the mid-thirties, mainly at the Mathematics Institute of the University of Vienna. The best known of its dozen ...

Epicurus of Samos (341-270 BC), who flourished not long after Aristotle died, founded a school of philosophy that convened at his home and garden in Athens. Called 'the Garden', this school ...

ABSTRACT: A perspective in the philosophy of mathematics is developed from a consideration of the strengths and limitations of both logicism and platonism, with an early focus on Frege’s work.

ABSTRACT: A perspective in the philosophy of mathematics is developed from a consideration of the strengths and limitations of both logicism and platonism, with an early focus on Frege’s work.

He was 95. Known by colleagues as one of the most distinguished philosophers of mathematics of the second half of the 20th century, Tait was professor emeritus in the Department of Philosophy and the ...