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17th-century philosophy of mathematics

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Surveys how Descartes, Hobbes, Leibniz and others debated the certainty, method and objects of mathematics in the 17th century, an hour-long lecture by Utrecht historian Viktor Blåsjö.

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Philosophy of mathematics in the 17th century.

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