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Philosophy of mathematics in the twentieth century : selected essays / Charles Parsons.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, (c)2014.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 350 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674419490
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • QA9 .P455 2014
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 THE KANTIAN LEGACY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICS -- 2 REALISM AND THE DEBATE ON IMPREDICATIVITY, 1917-1944 -- POSTSCRIPT TO ESSAY 2 -- 3 PAUL BERNAYS'LATER PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS -- 4 KURT GODEL -- 5 GODEL'S "RUSSELL'S MATHEMATICAL LOGIC" -- 6 QUINE AND GODEL ON ANALYTICITY -- POSTSCRIPT TO ESSAY 6 -- 7 PLATONISM AND MATHEMATICAL INTUITION IN KURT GODEL'S THOUGHT -- POST SCRIPT TO ESSAY 7 -- 8 QUINE'S NOMINALISM -- 9 GENETIC EXPLANATION IN THE ROOTS OF REFERENCE -- 10 HAO WANG AS PHILOSOPHER AND INTERPRETER OF GODEL -- 11 PUTNAM ON EXISTENCE AND ONTOLOGY -- 12 WILLIAM TAIT'S PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX.
Subject: In this illuminating collection, Charles Parsons surveys the contributions of philosophers and mathematicians who shaped the philosophy of mathematics over the course of the past century.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

In this illuminating collection, Charles Parsons surveys the contributions of philosophers and mathematicians who shaped the philosophy of mathematics over the course of the past century.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 THE KANTIAN LEGACY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICS -- 2 REALISM AND THE DEBATE ON IMPREDICATIVITY, 1917-1944 -- POSTSCRIPT TO ESSAY 2 -- 3 PAUL BERNAYS'LATER PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS -- 4 KURT GODEL -- 5 GODEL'S "RUSSELL'S MATHEMATICAL LOGIC" -- 6 QUINE AND GODEL ON ANALYTICITY -- POSTSCRIPT TO ESSAY 6 -- 7 PLATONISM AND MATHEMATICAL INTUITION IN KURT GODEL'S THOUGHT -- POST SCRIPT TO ESSAY 7 -- 8 QUINE'S NOMINALISM -- 9 GENETIC EXPLANATION IN THE ROOTS OF REFERENCE -- 10 HAO WANG AS PHILOSOPHER AND INTERPRETER OF GODEL -- 11 PUTNAM ON EXISTENCE AND ONTOLOGY -- 12 WILLIAM TAIT'S PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX.

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