Ontology

The first reading of this year will be chapters 1 and 2 of Shapiro’s Thinking about Mathematics, titled respectively “What is so interesting about mathematics (for a philosopher)?” and “A potpourri of questions and attempted answers”. We chose this as a first reading for the first session as it’s a nice, broad overview of what the philosophy of mathematics is all about, which hopefully makes for an interesting and accessible reading even for those who are new to this area of inquiry.