David Corfield

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David Corfield is a philosopher specializing in mathematics and psychology. He is the author of Towards a Philosophy of Real Mathematics (2003), in which he argues that the philosophical implications of mathematics did not stop with Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorems. He works at the Max Planck Institute in Tübingen.

1 Papers and reviews
2 See also
3 Further reading

[edit] Papers and reviews

"Assaying Lakatos's Philosophy of Mathematics", Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 28(1), 99-121 (1997).
"Beyond the Methodology of Mathematical Research Programmes", Philosophia Mathematica 6, 272-301 (1998).
"Come the Revolution...", critical notice on The Principles of Mathematics Revisited by Jaacko Hintikka, Philosophical Books 39(3), 150-6 (1998).
"The Importance of Mathematical Conceptualisation", Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 32(3), 507-533 (2001).
"Bayesianism in Mathematics", in Corfield D. and Williamson J. (eds.) (2001), 175-201.
(with J. Williamson), "Bayesianism into the 21st Century", in Corfield D. and Williamson J. (eds.) (2001), 1-16.
Corfield D. and Williamson J. (eds.), Foundations of Bayesianism, Kluwer Applied Logic Series (2001).
"Argumentation and the Mathematical Process", G. Kampis, L. Kvasz & M. Stöltzner (eds.) Appraising Lakatos: Mathematics, Methodology, and the Man, 115-138. Kluwer, Dordrecht (2002).
Review of Conceptual Mathematics by F. W. Lawvere and S. Schanuel and A Primer of Infinitesimal Analysis by J. Bell, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 33B(2), 359-366 (2002).
"From Mathematics to Psychology: Lacan's missed encounters" in J. Glynos and Y. Stavrakakis (eds.) Lacan and Science, Karnac Books, 179-206 (2002).
Towards a Philosophy of Real Mathematics, Cambridge University Press (2003).
Review of Opening Skinner's Box by Lauren Slater, The Guardian, 27 March 2004.
Review of M. Krieger (2002) Doing Mathematics. Philosophia Mathematica, 13: 106-111 (2005).
"Categorification as a Heuristic Device", in D. Gillies and C. Cellucci (eds.) Mathematical Reasoning and Heuristics, King's College Publications (2005).