My Interest in Philosophy

My interests in philosophy lie in three main areas:

Wittgenstein, The Vienna Circle and Logical Positivism:

I am particularly fascinated by Wittgenstein's Tractatus, and by the work of the Vienna Circle, a group of philosophers, mathematicians and physicists active in Vienna during the 1930s. They were influenced by the Tractatus, and tried to eliminate metaphysics from philosophy and place it on the same logical foundation as science. Their creed was called `Logical Positivism'.

The work of Karl Popper:

Popper is most famous for his work in the philosophy of science, criticising the Vienna Circle's Criterion of Verifiability, and replacing it with his Criterion of Falsifiability. His other important ideas include the Open Society, Evolutionism and Darwinism as Metaphysical Theory.

The Foundations of Mathematics:

I am particularly interested in Large Cardinals, the Axioms of Set Theory, the Continuum Hypothesis and Gödel's theorems.