Michael Detlefsen
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Michael Detlefsen's Degrees
- PhD Philosophy University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Philosophy University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Philosophy University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Michael Detlefsen was an American philosopher who was a McMahon-Hank Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. His areas of special interest were logic, history of mathematics, philosophy of mathematics and epistemology.
Michael Detlefsen's Published Works
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Published Works
- Purity of Methods (2011) (157)
- Formalism (2007) (148)
- Hilbert's program (1986) (106)
- Poincaré against the logicians (1992) (59)
- The Four-color Theorem and Mathematical Proof (1980) (59)
- Hilbert's Program: An Essay on Mathematical Instrumentalism. (1991) (38)
- On an alleged refutation of Hilbert's Program using Gödel's First Incompleteness Theorem (1990) (34)
- On interpreting Gödel's Second Theorem (1979) (29)
- Proof: Its Nature and Significance (2009) (25)
- Purity as an Ideal of Proof (2008) (25)
- What Does Gödel's Second Theorem Say (2001) (16)
- Proof, Logic and Formalization (1992) (16)
- Proof and Knowledge in Mathematics (1996) (14)
- Fregean hierarchies and mathematical explanation (1988) (13)
- Interpreting Gödel: Completeness and the ends of axiomatization (2014) (13)
- Prime sequences and distributivity in local Noether lattices (1974) (10)
- Poincaré vs. Russell on the Rôle of Logic in Mathematicst (1993) (9)
- Computation with roman numerals (1976) (8)
- Hilbert's formalism (1993) (8)
- Logic from A to Z (1999) (7)
- Wright on the Non-mechanizability of Intuitionist Reasoning (1995) (6)
- On a theorem of Feferman (1980) (5)
- Discovery, Invention and Realism: Gödel and others on the Reality of Concepts (2011) (5)
- Rigor, Re-proof and Bolzano's Critical Program (2010) (3)
- Introduction to Special Issue on George S. Boolos (1999) (3)
- Symmetric sublattices of a Noether lattice (1978) (3)
- Löb's Theorem as a Limitation on Mechanism (2002) (3)
- Regularity in terms of reductions in local Noether lattices (1974) (2)
- Medical paternalism reconsidered. (1981) (2)
- Mind in the shadows (1998) (2)
- Gentzen’s Anti-Formalist Views (2015) (2)
- Creation and Construction (2009) (1)
- Logic from A to Z: The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Glossary of Logical and Mathematical Terms (2013) (1)
- Introduction (2009) (1)
- Construction, Figure & Proof (2009) (0)
- The Minneapolis Hyatt Regency, Minneapolis, Minnesota May 3–4, 2001 (2001) (0)
- Peace, Justice and Computation: Leibniz’ Program and the Moral and Political Significance of Church’s Theorem (2001) (0)
- The Ideal of Creativity in Mathematics (2008) (0)
- PROOF AND INTUITION (2004) (0)
- Introduction to Logicism and the Paradoxes: A Reappraisal (2000) (0)
- The Gödelian Challenge (1986) (0)
- What Does Godel's Second Theorem Say?t (2005) (0)
- 1997–1998 Winter Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic (1998) (0)
- Formalism and Hilbert’s understanding of consistency problems (2021) (0)
- Walter van Stigt. Brouwer's Intuitionism. Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Co., 1990. pp. xxvi + 530. ISBN 0-444-88384-3 (Cloth). (1998) (0)
- The Convergence Problem and the Problem of Strict Instrumentalism (1986) (0)
- Duality, Epistemic Efficiency & Consistency (2014) (0)
- Gödel's Theorems & Hilbert's Program (2009) (0)
- THE CONCEPT OF LOGICAL CONSEQUENCE (2009) (0)
- Forms and their Value: Economy of Thought (2008) (0)
- Freedom & Consistency: Gentzen on Constructive Consistency Proofs (2009) (0)
- The Stability Problem (1986) (0)
- Formal Thinking, Abstraction & the Axiomatic Method (2008) (0)
- Background & Basic Distinctions (2008) (0)
- Varieties of Completeness (2008) (0)
- Curtis, C. VV. 255 (2006) (0)
- Impossibility, Permanence & the Axiom of Solvability (2011) (0)
- The End of Freedom (2009) (0)
- Ideals of Proof: An Overview (2007) (0)
- Aleksandar Pavković, ed. , Contemporary Yugoslav Philosophy: The Analytic Approach . Reviewed by (1989) (0)
- The Philosophical Fundamentals of Hilbert’s Program (1986) (0)
- Introduction to the Fiftieth Anniversary Issues (2009) (0)
- Rigor, Logic and Intuition (2010) (0)
- Foundations of Mathematics - What and Why?' (2010) (0)
- Ian Hacking. Why Is There Philosophy of Mathematics At All (2017) (0)
- The importance of Goedel's second incompleteness theorem for the foundations of mathematics (1981) (0)
- Freedom in Mathematics (2009) (0)
- On the Motives for Proof Theory (2015) (0)
- Gödel's Theorems and Platonism (2011) (0)
- Computer-Assisted Proofs and Mathematical Understanding: the case of Univalent Foundations (2020) (0)
- Abstraction, Axiomatization and Rigor: Pasch and Hilbert (2018) (0)
- Set-Theory and Higher-Order Logic: Foundational Issues and Mathematical Developments (2011) (0)
- Ideals of Proof (2008) (0)
- A Closer Look at the Problems (1986) (0)
- HOW TO SAY THINGS WITH FORMALISMS : David Auerbach (2005) (0)
- Generalized symmetric elements generated by a prime sequence (1998) (0)
- Discovery, Invention and Realism (2008) (0)
- Discovermental Complexity & the Evaluation of Hilbert's Program (2008) (0)
- Ideals of Completeness (2010) (0)
- Conductive Use of Formulae: Efficiency, Rigor & Reliability (2008) (0)
- Dedekind & the Search for Proof (2009) (0)
- 2000-2001 Spring Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic (2001) (0)
- Abstracts of invited plenary speakers (2013) (0)
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