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Markus Pantsar

Disciplines:
philosophy of mathematics
cognitive science

Summary

Finnish philosopher working on the empirical and cognitive foundations of mathematics — arguing that mathematical knowledge has roots in embodied and evolved cognitive capacities.

Core Contribution

An Empirically Feasible Approach to Mathematical Knowledge: arithmetic knowledge is grounded in evolved proto-arithmetic capacities (subitizing, approximate number sense) that are then culturally and linguistically extended.

Notable Works & Achievements

An Empirically Feasible Approach to the Epistemology of Arithmetic

Historical Influences

Susan Carey George Lakoff

Intellectual Lineage

Philosophy of Mathematics Cognitive Science

Contemporaries & Peers

Jacob Beck

Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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