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Prof Marcus Giaquinto
Honorary Emeritus
Dept of Philosophy
Faculty of Arts & Humanities
- Joined UCL
- 1st Oct 1985
Research summary
Research areas:
Past
Philosophical views underlying 20th century l programmes in foundations of mathematics.
Current:
Epistemology of visual thinking in mathematics.
The nature of (finite cardinal) numbers and our knowledge of them.
The nature of our knowledge of abstracta (e.g. properties, relations, structures . . .)
The possibility and nature of non-empirical knowledge, esp. conceptual knowledge.
Teaching summary
UG modules I have taught recently:
Intro to Axiomatic Set Theory; Intro to Scientific Inquiry; Philosophy of Basic Geometry and Arithmetic.
Epistemology - A Priori Knowledge; Our Knowledge of Abstracta; 20th C Philosophy of Mathematics.
Graduate only module:
Computability, Incompleteness and Mind.
Biography
I have degrees in Philosophy (BA, DPhil) and Mathematics (MSc).
