Details of the main expected source texts for discussion are as follows. Click on the title link to access the file then save to download to your own file system. Let me know if you have any problems.
Iris Loeb, Stefan Roski
Philosophia Scientiae 2014/1 (18-1) pp. 113 – 129
(1a) Simplicity and Economy in Bolzano’s Theory of Grounding
Stefan Roski and Antje Rumberg
Journal of the History of Philosophy (2016) vol. 54, no. 3 pp. 469 – 496
(1b) Simplicity, Generality and Economy: Philosophical background of the RAB
Stefan Roski
[2-page Handout with key themes from the text 1(a), updated 22.12.17 ]
Johan Blok (PhD thesis, November 2016)
Johan Blok [presentation slides, posted here 26.12.17]
(3) The Germanic Development of the Pre-Modern Notion of Number: From c. 1750 to Bolzano’s Rein analytischer Beweis
Elías Fuentes Guillén (PhD thesis, July 2017. Full version linked from this web page.)
(3a) Longer summary of the thesis
Elías Fuentes Guillén (updated 28.11.17, posted here 22.12.17)
(4) Bolzano’s measurable numbers : are they real?
Steve Russ and Kateřina Trlifajová
in Maria Zack, Elaine Landry eds. Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics, The CSHPM 2015 Annual Meeting in Washington D.C., Birkhäuser (2016) pp. 39 – 56
(5) Bolzano’s Infinite Quantities
Kateřina Trlifajová
Paper forthcoming in Foundations of Science
Kateřina Trlifajová (posted here 27.12.17)