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9780631195443

Philosophies of Mathematics

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  • ISBN13:

    9780631195443

  • ISBN10:

    0631195440

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-12-03
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

This book provides an accessible, critical introduction to the three main approaches that dominated work in the philosophy of mathematics during the twentieth century: logicism, intuitionism and formalism.

Author Biography


Alexander George is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Amherst College. He is editor of Reflections on Chomsky (1989) Western State Terrorism (1991) and Mathematics and Mind (1994).

Daniel J. Velleman is Professor of Mathematics at Amherst College. He is author of How to Prove It: A Structured Approach (1994) and co-author of Which Way Did the Bicycle Go? And Other Intriguing Mathematical Mysteries (with Joseph Konhauser and Stan Wagon, 1996).

Table of Contents

Preface vi
Introduction
1(13)
Logicism
14(30)
Set Theory
44(45)
Intuitionism
89(32)
Intuitionistic Mathematics
121(26)
Finitism
147(26)
The Incompleteness Theorems
173(41)
Coda
214(7)
References 221(5)
Index 226

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