David Sherry (philosopher)

David M. Sherry (B.A., University of Montana, 1974; Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School, 1982) is a philosopher and professor at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. He teaches History of Philosophy, History of Logic, as well as Philosophy of Mathematics. He has published on Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics and Philosophy of Science.

Selected publications

Vladimir Kanovei, Karin U. Katz, Mikhail Katz, David Sherry. "Euler's lute and Edwards' oud." The Mathematical Intelligencer (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00283-015-9565-6 and http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.02586
Katz, Mikhail G.; Sherry, David. Leibniz's infinitesimals: their fictionality, their modern implementations, and their foes from Berkeley to Russell and beyond. Erkenntnis 78 (2013), no. 3, 571–625.
Błaszczyk, Piotr; Katz, Mikhail G.; Sherry, David. Ten misconceptions from the history of analysis and their debunking. Found. Sci. 18 (2013), no. 1, 43–74.
Katz, Mikhail G.; Sherry, David M. Leibniz's laws of continuity and homogeneity. Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 59 (2012), no. 11, 1550–1558.
Sherry, David. The wake of Berkeley's Analyst: rigor mathematicae? Stud. Hist. Philos. Sci. 18 (1987), no. 4, 455–480.
Sherry, David. On mathematical error. Stud. Hist. Philos. Sci. 28 (1997), no. 3, 393–416.