Papers

Articles

Yacin Hamami and Rebecca Morris “Rationality in mathematical proofs,” forthcoming in Australasian Journal of Philosophy. Preprint: here. DOI: here.

Rebecca Morris, “Intellectual generosity and the reward structure of mathematics,” forthcoming in Synthese.  Preprint: here.  DOI: here.  Springer Nature ShareIt: here.

Yacin Hamami and Rebecca Morris, “Plans and planning in mathematical proofs,” forthcoming in The Review of Symbolic Logic.  Preprint: here. DOI: here.

Rebecca Morris, “Do mathematical explanations have instrumental value?”, Synthese, 198: 1309–1328, 2021 Preprint: here.  DOI: here. Springer Nature ShareIt: here.

Rebecca Morris, “Increasing specialization: Why we need to make mathematics more accessible,” Social Epistemology, 35(1): 37-47, 2021.  Preprint: here.  DOI: here.

Yacin Hamami and Rebecca Morris, “Philosophy of mathematical practice: A primer for mathematics educators,” ZDM Mathematics Education, 52: 1113–1126, 2020.  Preprint: here. DOI: here.  Springer Nature ShareIt: here.

Rebecca Morris, “Motivated proofs: What they are, why they matter and how to write them,” The Review of Symbolic Logic, 13 (1): 23-46, 2020.  DOI: here.  Preprint: here.  Cambridge Core Share: here.

David Redish, Erich Kummerfeld, Rebecca Morris and Alan Love, “Opinion: Reproducibility failures are essential to scientific inquiry,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115 (20): 5042-5046, 2018.  DOI: here (open access).

Jeremy Avigad and Rebecca Morris, “Character and object,” The Review of Symbolic Logic, 9 (3): 480-510, 2016.  DOI: here. Preprint: here.  Extended version: arXiv.

Jeremy Avigad and Rebecca Morris, “The concept of “character” in Dirichlet’s theorem on primes in an arithmetic progression,” Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 68 (3): 265–326, 2014.  DOI: here.  Preprint: arXiv.

Book Chapters

Rebecca Morris, “The values of mathematical proofs.” Forthcoming in Bharath Sriraman (Ed.) Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Mathematical Practice, Springer.  DOI: here. Please also contact me for a copy.

Wilfried Sieg and Rebecca Morris, “Dedekind’s structuralism: Creating concepts and deriving theorems.”  In Erich Reck (Ed.) Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics, and their History: Essays in Honor of W.W. Tait, College Publications, 2018.  Preprint: here.

Non-Academic Writing

Rebecca Lea Morris “Why you should self-archive and how to do it” Blog of the American Philosophical Association, 2020.