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    Katherine Dunlop

    contemporaryAnalytic Philosophy, Kantian Philosophy of Mathematics

    Katherine Dunlop is a contemporary analytic philosopher specializing in Kant's philosophy of mathematics and the history and philosophy of science. She has written on the epistemological status of geometry, the nature of mathematical cognition in Kant, and the conventionalist tradition in philosophy of mathematics. Her work examines how geometric and metric claims relate to truth, convention, and empirical inquiry.

    Notable Achievements

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    Developed accounts of the epistemological status of metric and geometric claims in relation to conventionalism

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    Contributed to scholarship on Kant's philosophy of mathematics and the role of intuition in geometric cognition

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    Examined the relationship between formal geometry and empirical science in the post-Kantian tradition

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    Written on the distinction between pure and applied geometry and what it means for geometric axioms to bear truth values

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    Modality & Possibility

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    Metric geometry is neither true nor false.

    Truth & Knowledge

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    Metric geometry is neither true nor false.

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    Analytic Philosophy, Kantian Philosophy of Mathematics

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