TY - BOOK AU - Marcus,Russell AU - McEvoy,Mark TI - An historical introduction to the philosophy of mathematics: a reader SN - 9781472525345 AV - QA8.4 .H57 2016 U1 - 510.1 23 PY - 2016/// CY - London, New York PB - Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publsihing Plc KW - Mathematics KW - Philosophy KW - History KW - fast KW - Mathematik KW - gnd KW - Philosophie N1 - 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 ER -