Brouwer’s Weak Counterexamples and the Creative Subject: A Critical Survey
(2020)
Journal Article
Fletcher. (2020). Brouwer’s Weak Counterexamples and the Creative Subject: A Critical Survey. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 49, 1111-1157. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-020-09551-y
I survey Brouwer’s weak counterexamples to classical theorems, with a view to discovering (i) what useful mathematical work is done by weak counterexamples; (ii) whether they are rigorous mathematical proofs or just plausibility arguments; (iii) the... Read More about Brouwer’s Weak Counterexamples and the Creative Subject: A Critical Survey.