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Education:
- B.A., Ideas and Methods, The University of Chicago (Chicago, IL), 1972
- Ph.D., Yale University (New Haven, CT), 1978
- Auditor, University of Muenster, 1976-77
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Recent Publications:
- Representation and Productive Ambiguity in Mathematics and the Sciences (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)
- Leaves / Feuilles (poems) (Bordeaux: William Blake & Co., 2007)
- Productive Ambiguity and Representation in Mathematics. Forthcoming in 2007 from Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press, Oxford).
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The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir, a collection of essays inspired by the 50th anniversary of The Second Sex. Essays by Susan James, Catherine Wilson, Claude Imbert, Toril Moi, Michèle Le Doeuff, Nancy Bauer, Anne Stevenson, and myself, as well as my Introduction and my translations of the Imbert and Le Doeuff essays. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
- “How to Say Truth Things in Algebraic Topology,” Demonstrative and Non-demonstrative Reasoning, P. Pecere, ed., Edizioni dell’ Università degli Studi di Cassino, 2006.
- “Form and Experience: Leibniz and Hume on the Correction of Knowledge,” Leibniz: What Kind of Rationalist?, ed. M. Dascal, Springer Academic Publications, 2006.
- “Leibniz on Mathematics and Representation: Knowledge through the Integration of Irreducible Diversity,” The Young Leibniz, ed. M. Kulstad, Studia Leibnitiana Sonderheft, 2006.
- “Constructive Ambiguity in Mathematical Reasoning,” Mathematical Reasoning and Heuristics, D. Gillies and C. Cellucci, eds., King’s College Publications, 2005, pp. 1-23.
- “Jules Vuillemin’s La Philosophie de l’algèbre: The Philosophical Uses of Mathematics,” Philosophie des mathématiques et théorie de la connaissance: L’Oeuvre de Jules Vuillemin, R. Rashed and P. Pellegrin, eds. Paris: Albert Blanchard, 2005, pp. 253-270.
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Current Projects:
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Scientia Mathematica Generalis: Papers on the Foundations of Arithmetic. G. W. Leibniz. Editions and English translations of about 10 selected papers.
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Mathematics and Poetry. Poetry stands in the same relation to the humanities as mathematics stands to the sciences. Both disciplines generate insight by highly concentrated modes of expression in which formal structure is just as important as content in the creation of meaning. Thus, in these disciplines, close attention to form, and to forms in combination, is essential to the interpretation of texts.
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Analysis, History, and Intelligibility: An Essay on the Philosophy of Mathematics. In this book, I address the questions of how we come to know intelligible things, how justification procedures are related to discovery procedures in mathematics, and how the history and philosophy of mathematics are related, using a rationalist epistemology that gives sense perception a subordinate and deferred place in knowledge processes, and refers the unity of intelligible things not to the human mind but to existence.
- Professor Grosholz is also a member of two other academic units:
Recherches Epistemologiques et Historiques sure les Sciences Exactes et les Institutions Scientifiques, University of Paris 7 and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
http://www.rehseis.cnrs.fr
Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
http://www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr
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