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Title The philosophy of mathematics / edited by W. D. Hart.

Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  510.1 P549    ---  Available
Description vi, 316 p. ; 21 cm.
Series Oxford readings in philosophy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-314) and index.
Contents Mathematical truth / Paul Benacerraf -- Two dogmas of empiricism / W. V. Quine -- Access and inference / W. D. Hart -- Philosophical basis of intuitionistic logic / Michael Dummett -- Mathematical intuition / Charles Parsons -- Perception and mathematical intuition / Penelope Maddy -- Truth and proof: the Platonism of mathematics / W. W. Tait -- Mathematics without foundations / Hilary Putnam -- Consistency of Frege's Foundations of arithmetic / George Boolos -- Arithmetical truth and hidden higher-order concepts / Daniel Isaacson -- Conservativeness and incompleteness / Stewart Shapiro -- Is mathematical knowledge just logical knowledge? / Hartry Field -- Structuralist view of mathematical objects / Charles Parsons.
Subject Mathematics -- Philosophy.
Added Author Hart, W. D. (Wilbur Dyre), 1943-
ISBN 0198751206 (pbk.)
0198751192

 
    
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