An historical introduction to the philosophy of mathematics : a reader / edited by Russell Marcus and Mark McEvoy. - xxx, 815 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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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Mathematics--Philosophy.
Philosophy--History.
Mathematics--Philosophy.
Philosophy.
Mathematik
Philosophie


History.

QA8.4 / .H57 2016

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