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Albert Lautman, ou la dialectique dans les mathématiques
Larvor, B. (2010)Albert Lautman (1908-1944) is a rare example of a twentieth-century philosopher whose engagement with contemporary mathematics goes beyond the ‘foundational’ areas of mathematical logic and set theory. He insists that (what ... -
Albert Lautman: Dialectics in mathematics
Larvor, B. (College Publications, 2011)In this paper, I shall first explore Lautman’s conception of dialectics by a consideration of his references to Plato and Heidegger. I shall then compare the dialectical structures that he found in contemporary mathematics ... -
Authoritarian vs authoritative teaching : Polya and Lakatos
Larvor, B. (Springer Nature, 2010)How can a teacher be authoritative without being authoritarian? Throughout his adult life, Lakatos campaigned against authoritarian teaching on both scientific and political grounds, without always disentangling the two. ... -
Between logic and history
Larvor, B. (Springer Nature, 2007) -
Critical Friendships Among Beginning Philosophers : research report on a mini-project funded by the Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies of the Higher Education Academy
Larvor, B.; Lippitt, John; Weston, Kathryn Louise (University of Hertfordshire, 2011)In a mini-project funded by the Subject Centre, we reviewed the educational literature on peer support and used focus groups to explore students' ideas of academic and critical friendship. We report on our findings, make ... -
Feeling the force of argument
Larvor, B. (Continuum, 2009)Higher education requires students to make judgments about the evidence and arguments placed before them, and all judgment has an aesthetic aspect. A mathematics student must be struck by the validity and elegance of a ... -
The formalising tendency in philosophy and experimental psychology
Larvor, B. (2003) -
Frankfurt counter-example defused
Larvor, B. (2010-07)Frankfurt’s 1969 paper ‘Alternate possibilities and moral responsibility’ purports to refute the principle that a person is morally responsible for what he has done only if he could have done otherwise. It offers a case ... -
The Growth of Mathematical Knowledge
Larvor, B. (2002-02) -
History and philosophy of infinity : Selected papers from the conference “Foundations of the Formal Sciences VIII” held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, England, 20–23 September 2013
Larvor, B.; Loewe, Benedikt; Schlimm, Dirk (2015-08) -
How to think about informal proofs
Larvor, B. (2012-07-01)It is argued in this study that (i) progress in the philosophy of mathematical practice requires a general positive account of informal proof; (ii) the best candidate is to think of informal proofs as arguments that depend ... -
Imre Lakatos
Larvor, B.; Rittberg, Colin (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2014-07-30) -
Lakatos as historian of mathematics
Larvor, B. (1997)This paper discusses the connection between the actual history of mathematics and Lakatos's philosophy of mathematics, in three parts. The first points to studies by Lakatos and others which support his conception of ... -
Lakatos' mathematical Hegelianism
Larvor, B. (1999) -
The Mathematical Cultures Network Project
Larvor, B. (2012)The UK Arts and Humanities Research Council has agreed to fund a series of three meetings with associated publications on mathematical cultures. This note describes the project -
Mathematical Cultures Project Website
Larvor, B. (2014)This website hosts the video recordings of the the presentations to the three meetings of the AHRC-funded Mathematical Cultures Project -
Mill on liberty of thought and discussion
Larvor, B. (British Humanist Association, 2006) -
Moral particularism and scientific practice
Larvor, B. (2008)Particularism is usually understood as a position in moral philosophy. In fact, it is a view about all reasons, not only moral reasons. Here, I show that particularism is a familiar and controversial position in the ... -
Naturalism
Larvor, B. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015-05)Humanism is a naturalistic worldview. The British Humanist Association explains on its website that humanists believe, “that the universe is a natural phenomenon with no supernatural side.” Naturalism, then, excludes the ...