James Franklin

James Franklin is the author of The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability Before Pascal ; Corrupting the Youth: A History of Philosophy in Australia ; What Science Knows: And How It Knows It ; and An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics . He is honorary professor at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, where he taught mathematics for nearly forty years and set up the world's first course on professional issues and ethics in mathematics. He is the editor of...See more

James Franklin is the author of The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability Before Pascal ; Corrupting the Youth: A History of Philosophy in Australia ; What Science Knows: And How It Knows It ; and An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics . He is honorary professor at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, where he taught mathematics for nearly forty years and set up the world's first course on professional issues and ethics in mathematics. He is the editor of the Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society . He was awarded the 2005 Eureka Prize for Research in Ethics for work on the parallels between objectivity in mathematics and in ethics. See less