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Kenneth Manders, Associate Professor
History & Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Science
PhD, UC-Berkeley, 1974
Kenneth Manders is associate professor of philosophy, with a secondary appointment in history and philosophy of science, and fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science. He currently serves as Director of Graduate Studies. He was a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and NEH fellow, and has held a NATO postdoctoral fellowship in science (at Utrecht), a NSF mathematical sciences postdoctoral fellowship (at Yale), and a Howard Foundation Fellowship. His research interests lie in the philosophy, history, and foundations of mathematics; and in general questions on relations between intelligibility, content, and representational or conceptual casting. He is currently working on a book on geometrical representation, centering on Descartes. He has published a number of articles on philosophy of mathematics, history of mathematics, model theory, philosophy of science, measurement theory, and the theory of computational complexity.
Select Publications
Manders, K. and L. Adleman. NP-complete decision problems for binary quadratics. Journal of Computer and System Sciences 16 (1978), pp. 168-84.
Interpretations and the model theory of the classical geometries.
In: G. Mueller and M. Richter, eds., Models and Sets.
Springer Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1103 (1984), pp. 297-330.
Domain extension and the philosophy of mathematics.
Journal of Philosophy 86 (1989), pp. 553-62.
The Euclidean Diagram. Manuscript 5/95, 35pp. (unpublished)
Euclid or Descartes: Representation and responsiveness. Manuscript 11/96, 35pp. (unpublished)
Algebra in Roth, Faulhaber, and Descartes.
To Appear in Historia Mathematica (approx 2005).
