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Philosophy of Mathematics in the Twentieth Century : Selected Essays.
Title:
Philosophy of Mathematics in the Twentieth Century : Selected Essays.
Author:
Parsons, Charles.
ISBN:
9780674419490
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (368 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Some Mathematicians as Philosophers -- 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 Gödel -- 5. Gödel's "Russell's Mathematical Logic" -- Postscript to Essay 5 -- 6 Quine and Gödel on Analyticity -- Postscript to Essay 6 -- 7. Platonism and Mathematical Intuition in Kurt Gödel's Thought -- Postscript to Essay 7 -- Part II: Contemporaries -- 8. Quine's Nominalism -- 9. Genetic Explanation in The Roots of Reference -- 10. Hao Wang as Philosopher and Interpreter of Gödel -- 11. Putnam on Existence and Ontology -- 12. William Tait's Philosophy of Mathematics -- Bibliography -- Copyright Acknowledgments -- Index.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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