Philosophy of mathematics

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1. archi42May 2019
   There are those philosophers which are as concerned with logic as you'd expect from a pure mathematician ;-)

   If you're interested, Shapiro's "Thinking about Mathematics: The Philosophy of Mathematics" gives a nice introduction into that topic, discussing several schools of philosophy and their thinkers (without forcing the authors pov on the reader). We had a seminar discussing that book, and while most philosophy students seemed happy to skip that seminar (too much math/logic), those of us with a MINT background (CS major here) found it quite amazing.

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2. ionfishJul 2010
   Most of the "eye-opening or incredibly interesting" philosophical material that I've read has been in individual articles rather than books. That said, here are a few favourites from various areas. It's a bit heavily weighted towards recent material; Kant and Plato ought to be on there, but I can't stand Kant as a writer, even if his ideas are profound, and Plato's style has always irritated me for some reason I can't quite put my finger on. I could probably keep tying titles all day, so I'll stop with those that first popped into my head.

   Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

   David Chalmers, The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory

   Gottlob Frege, Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik

   Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

   David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

   J.S. Mill, On Liberty

   John Rawls, A Theory of Justice

   Stewart Shapiro, Philosophy of Mathematics: Structure and Ontology

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