Math 7
How Many Angels?: Philosophy, Mathematics and the Infinite
Last updated May 31, 2008 12:24:46 EDT

General Information Syllabus Writing Assignments

Syllabus

The following is a projected syllabus for the course.

This page will be updated as additions or changes are made. Any changes will also be announced in class.

Details about writing assignments will be available on the Writing Assignments page.


Dates Notes Assignments Due
9/21 First class meeting  
9/22 (x-hour) Class does not meet.  
9/23   Reading assignment due: Salmon, A Contemporary Look at Zeno's Paradoxes, Part I.
9/26   Reading assignment due: Moore, Aristotle; Carroll, What the Tortoise Said to Achilles.
9/28   Reading assignment due: Quine, The Ways of Paradox, Part I.
9/29 (x-hour) Class does not meet.  
9/30   Reading assignment due: Rucker, Infinity.
Writing assignment due: Paper I, first draft.
10/3   Reading assignment due: Newton, excerpts.
10/5   No reading assignment for today.
10/6 (x-hour) Class does not meet.  
10/7   Reading assignment due: Berkeley, The Analyst, Editor's Introduction and Part I.
Writing assignment due: Paper I, final version: POSTPONED UNTIL MONDAY.
10/10   No reading assignment for today.
Writing assignment due: Paper I, final version.
10/12   No reading assignment for today.
10/13 (x-hour) Class does not meet.  
10/14   Reading assignment due: Descartes, Discourse on the Method...
Writing assignment due: Paper 2, first draft.
10/17   Reading assigment due: Hilbert, On the Infinite, Part I.
10/19   No reading assignment for today.
10/20 (x-hour) Class meets today during x-hour, 1:00-1:50. Reading assignment due: Salmon, A Contemporary Look at Zeno's Paradoxes, Part II.
10/21 Class does NOT meet today. Writing assignment due: Paper 2, final version.
10/24   Short assignment due: Proposed research paper topic.
10/26   No reading assignment for today.
10/27 (x-hour) Class does not meet.  
10/28   Reading assignment due: Paper handed out in class on Wednesday.
Writing assignment due: Paper 3, proposal.
10/31   Reading assignment due: Dauben, Cantor's Philosophy of the Infinite.
11/2   Reading assignment due: Hilbert, On the Infinite, Part II.
11/3 (x-hour) Class does not meet.  
11/4   No reading assignment for today.
Schedule I writing assignment due: Paper 3, first draft.
Schedule II writing assignment due: Paper 3, outline.
11/7   Reading assignment due: Quine, The Ways of Paradox, Part II.
11/9   Reading assignment due: Heyting, Disuptation.
Schedule II writing assignment due: Paper 3, first draft.
11/10 (x-hour) Class DOES NOT meet today.  
11/11 Class DOES NOT meet today.  
11/14   Reading assignment due: Moore, Reactions.
Schedule I writing assignment due: Paper 3, final version.
11/16   Reading assignment due: Maddy, Realism.
11/17 (x-hour) Class meets today during x-hour, 1:00-1:50. Reading assignment due: Davis and Hersh, Mathematical Models, Computers and Platonism, and Davis and Hersh, Infinity, or The Miraculous Jar of Mathematics.
11/18   No reading assignment for today.
Schedule I writing assignment due: Paper 4, first draft.
Schedule II writing assignment due: Paper 3, final draft.
11/21   Reading assignment due: Salmon, A Contemporary Look at Zeno's Paradoxes, Part III.
11/23 Class does not meet (Thanksgiving break.)  
11/24 Class does not meet (Thanksgiving break.)  
11/25 Class does not meet (Thanksgiving break.)  
11/28   Reading assignment due: Le Blanc, Infinity in God and Mathematics.
Schedule II writing assignment due: Paper 4, first draft.
11/30   No reading assignment for today.
Schedule I writing assignment due: Paper 4, final version.
12/4   Schedule II writing assignment due: Paper 4, final version, due at noon.


Marcia J. Groszek
Last updated May 31, 2008 12:24:46 EDT