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PHIL211 Ways of Logic, Number and Science

10 cp
Prerequisites
1 Philosophy unit at introductory 100-level
Teaching Organisation Lectures, tutorials, seminars.

This unit will consider questions concerning the foundations of mathematics and/or the sciences with a special emphasis on the contributions and limits of the techniques of modern formal logic. Topics will be chosen from the following: logicism and the theory of types, formalism, intuitionism, Cantor's Paradise and infinity, the set theoretic paradoxes, the epistemology and metaphysics of geometry and arithmetic, decision theory in the social sciences, formal methods in the foundations of physical theories, deontic logic, formal learning theory, logic and computational models in psychology.

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