The First Greek Conference on History and Philosophy of Mathematics—Theme: History and Philosophy of Ancient Greek Mathematics

Philosophy of Mathematics and Philosophy of History

mathematical and one philosophical. In the first, Socrates leads the slave boy to correct, refine, and extend his intuition of a pair of geometrical diagrams by examining his presuppositions in the light of certain background knowledge (about arithmetic), as they solve a problem together. In the second, Socrates leads Meno to correct, refine, and extend his intuition about virtue as well as abo...

Ancient greek philosophy and modern psychiatry.

Possibilities of the Philosophy of History

Diagrams in mathematics: history and philosophy

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Ancient Greek Music a New Technical History

By the middle of the third century BC, from which the first preserved documents of ancient Greek written music date,1 musical notation was already firmly established; it had acquired much of the inner structure that emerges from the full account given in Alypius’ handbook, compiled perhaps half a millennium later. Thus we are not in a position to directly observe the evolution of this system ou...