Speaker

• Benedikt Löwe (Amsterdam, Cambridge & Hamburg)

Abstract

Philosophy of mathematics moved beyond the armchair in the last twenty years: more so than in the philosophical study of other sciences, philosophy of mathematics was dominated by a highly idealised picture of mathematical activities that was often in direct conflict with actual research practice. This talk discusses the development of the community (or communities) that study the philosophy of mathematics under consideration of actual mathematical research practice.

Readings

• Buldt, Bernd, Benedikt Löwe, and Thomas Müller. 2008. „Towards a New Epistemology of Mathematics“. Erkenntnis 68 (3): 309–29. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-008-9101-6.
• Löwe, Benedikt, Thomas Müller. 2010. „Preface“ In PhiMSAMP. Philosophy of Mathematics: Sociological Aspects and Mathematical Practice, edited by Benedikt Löwe and Thomas Müller. London: College Publications, pp. vii–ix.
• Ju, Shier, Benedikt Löwe, Thomas Müller, and Yun Xie. 2012. „Preface“ In Cultures of Mathematics and Logic, edited by Shier Ju, Benedikt Löwe, Thomas Müller, and Yun Xie, v–vii. Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31502-7_1.
• Löwe, Benedikt. 2016. „Philosophy or Not? The Study of Cultures and Practices of Mathematics“. In Cultures of Mathematics and Logic, edited by Shier Ju, Benedikt Löwe, Thomas Müller, and Yun Xie, 23–42. Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31502-7_2.
• Löwe, Benedikt, and Bart Van Kerkhove. 2019. “Methodological Triangulation in Empirical Philosophy (of Mathematics).” In Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics, edited by Andrew Aberdein and Matthew Inglis, 15–38. London: Bloomsbury. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350039049.0005.