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    An historical introduction to the philosophy of mathematics : a reader / edited by Russell Marcus and Mark McEvoy.

    Contributor(s): Marcus, Russell, 1966- [editor.] | McEvoy, Mark (Mark V.) [editor.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publsihing Plc, 2016Description: xxx, 815 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781472525345; 1472525345; 9781472525673; 1472525671Subject(s): Mathematics -- Philosophy | Philosophy -- History | Mathematics -- Philosophy | Philosophy | Mathematik | PhilosophieGenre/Form: History.DDC classification: 510.1 LOC classification: QA8.4 | .H57 2016
    Contents:
    Part I. Ancients. Pythagoras, Parmenides and Zeno's Paradoxes ; Plato ; Aristotle -- Part II. Moderns. The Rationalists ; The Empiricists ; Kant -- Part III. Nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Mill ; Cantor's transfinites ; Logicism ; Formalism ; Intuitionism ; Conventionalism ; Wittgenstein ; Gödel's Theorem -- Part IV. Contemporary views. The Benacerraf problem ; The indispensability argument ; Benacerraf's number puzzle and structuralism ; Modalism ; Fictionalism ; Apriorism ; Maddy's realism ; Naturalism ; Plenitudinous platonism ; Neo-logicism ; Experimental mathematics.
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 781-802) and index.

    Part I. Ancients. Pythagoras, Parmenides and Zeno's Paradoxes ; Plato ; Aristotle -- Part II. Moderns. The Rationalists ; The Empiricists ; Kant -- Part III. Nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Mill ; Cantor's transfinites ; Logicism ; Formalism ; Intuitionism ; Conventionalism ; Wittgenstein ; Gödel's Theorem -- Part IV. Contemporary views. The Benacerraf problem ; The indispensability argument ; Benacerraf's number puzzle and structuralism ; Modalism ; Fictionalism ; Apriorism ; Maddy's realism ; Naturalism ; Plenitudinous platonism ; Neo-logicism ; Experimental mathematics.

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