Emily Grosholz offers an original investigation of demonstration in mathematics and science,
examining how it works and why it is persuasive. Focusing on geometrical demonstration, …

During embryonic development, axons from sensory neurons in the olfactory epithelium (OE)
extend into the olfactory bulb (OB) where they synapse with projection neurons and form …

Cartesian method, construed as a way of organizing domains of knowledge according to
the ‘order of reason’, was a powerful reductive tool. Descartes produced important results in …

… The conference took place in large part because of the support of two people, my husband
Robert R. Edwards, then Director of the Institute, and the Associate Vice-President for …

Interpreting Du Bois' thoughts on race and culture in a broadly philosophical sense, this
volume assembles original essays by some of today's leading scholars in a critical dialogue on …

Relations among distinct areas of mathematical activity are most commonly discussed in
terms of the reduction of axiomatized theories, where reduction is defined to be the deductive …

This book stems from my engagement with philosophers of mathematics at the University of
Rome, the University of Paris, the University of London and King’s College, London, and …

The aims of this essay are twofold. In the first place I would like to exhibit a twentieth-century
instance of an important pattern of mathematical reasoning which I have discussed …

… That was the same year Jackie and my cousin Trish Grosholz and I and some other friends
… in the Korean War, my father, Edwin DeHaven Grosholz, spent 7 years of his life crossing the …

Mathematics plays a central role in the description, explanation and manipulation of natural
phenomena. To what extent, and how and why mathematics applies to nature is a problem …