Math 7
How Many Angels?: Philosophy, Mathematics and the Infinite
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Syllabus

The following is a tentative 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.

Here are the questionnaire and writing assignment from Monday, March 26.


Dates Notes Assignments Due
3/26 First class meeting  
3/26   Due today: Questionnaire
3/30   Writing assignment due: Short paper assigned on Monday. Reading assignment due: Salmon, A Contemporary Look at Zeno's Paradoxes, Part I.
4/2   Reading assignment due: Carroll, What the Tortoise Said to Achillies; Rucker, Infinity and the Mind, Chapter 1.
4/4   Reading assignment due: Moore, Aristotle.
4/6   Reading assignment due: Quine, The Ways of Paradox, Part I. Writing assignment due: Paper 1, first draft, 9AM.
4/9   Reading assignment due: Excerpts from Newton.
4/10 (x-hour) We do not meet today unless announced otherwise by the preceding Friday.  
4/11    
4/13   Reading assignment due: Berkeley, The Analyst, Editor's Introduction and Part I. Writing assignment due: Paper 1.
4/16   Reading assignment due: Descartes, Discourse on the Method...
4/17 (x-hour) We DO meet during the x-hour today.  
4/18    
4/20   Writing assignment due: Paper 2, first draft, 9AM.
4/20 Class does not meet today.  
4/23   Reading assignment due: Hilbert, On the Infinite, Part I.
4/25 (x-hour) We do not meet today.  
4/25   Reading assignment due: Salmon, A Contemporary Look at Zeno's Paradoxes, Part II.
4/27   Writing assignment due: Paper 2.
4/30   Reading assignment due: Dauben, Cantor's Philosophy of the Infinite.
5/1 (x-hour) We do not meet today.  
5/2   Reading assignment due: Hilbert, On the Infinite, Part II.
5/4   Reading assignment due: Quine, The Wqys of Paradox, Part II. Writing assignment due: Paper 3, proposal, 9AM.
5/7   Reading assignment due: Heyting, Disputation.
5/8 (x-hour) We do not meet today unless announced otherwise by the preceding Friday.  
5/9   Reading assignment due: Moore, Reactions.
5/11   Reading assignment due: reading. Writing assignment due: Paper 3, first draft, 9AM.
5/14   Reading assignment due: Maddy, Realism (all sections).
5/15 (x-hour) We do not meet today unless announced otherwise by the preceding Friday.  
5/16   Reading assignment due: Davis and Hersh, Mathematical Models, Computers, and Platonism.
5/18   Reading assignment due: Davis and Hersh, Infinity, or the Miraculous Jar of Mathematics. Writing assignment due: Paper 3.
5/21   Reading assignment due: LeBlanc, Infinity in God and Mathematics.
5/22 (x-hour) We do not meet today unless announced otherwise by the preceding Friday.  
5/23   Reading assignment due: Salmon, A Contemporary Look at Zeno's Paradoxes, Part III.
5/25   Writing assignment due: Paper 4, first draft, 9AM.
5/28 No class today; Memorial Day Holiday.  
5/30 Last day of class.  
6/1   Writing assignment due: Paper 4.


Marcia J. Groszek
Last updated June 17, 2015 12:57:09 EDT