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Russell Marcus
Russell Marcus
Russell Marcus, the Chauncey Truax Post-Doctoral Fellow in philosophy, is the author of a short sketch of mathematician and philosopher David Hilbert's philosophical views in the March issue (Vol. 3.3) of The Reasoner. The publication is an interdisciplinary monthly digest highlighting research on reasoning, inference and method in philosophy, logic, artificial intelligence, statistics, cognitive science, law, psychology, mathematics and the sciences.

Hilbert shaped the direction of mathematical thought in the 20th century, most famously by framing the Paris Problems, 23 open questions presented at the 1900 International Congress of Mathematicians. Hilbert's philosophical views are particularly subtle. He is often classified as a finitist and as a formalist, but he sought justifications for infinitary mathematics. Against the formalists, he also argued that finite statements both had content and were directly verifiable.

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