#19: Deducing the Indeducible with Rowen Bangs '20, Philosophy/Math
Frank interviews Rowen about a thesis year like no other. Rowen's thesis experience explored some arguments about the epistemology of mathematics, or, as Rowen puts it, it was "a philosophical argument that used elements of mathematics." Rowen touches on Gödel's Theorem, Peano Arithmetic, and related theories. Reed community members can read Rowen's thesis online in the Electronic Theses Archive, which includes a short preface on the usefulness of epistemic thought in times of great crisis: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/f795436c-1da3-476e-a5e0-6e99c4ded95b
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