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The twentieth century has witnessed an unprecedented 'crisis in the foundations of mathematics', featuring a world-famous paradox (Russell's Paradox), a challenge to 'classical' mathematics from a world-famous mathematician (the 'mathematical intuitionism' of Brouwer), a new foundational school (Hilbert's Formalism), and the profound incompleteness results of Kurt Gödel. In the same period, the cross-fertilization of mathematics and philosophy resulted in a new sort of 'mathematical philosophy', associated most notably (but in different ways) with Bertrand Russell, W. V. Quine, and Gödel himself, and which remains at the focus of Anglo-Saxon philosophical discussion. The present collection brings together in a convenient form the seminal articles in the philosophy of mathematics by these and other major thinkers. It is a substantially revised version of the edition first published in 1964 and includes a revised bibliography. The volume will be welcomed as a major work of reference at this level in the field.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy Social & political philosophy

• Full title: Philosophy of Mathematics
• Author: Paul Benacerraf
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 612
• EAN: 9780521296489
• ISBN: 052129648X
• ID: 04398646
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 914 g
• Dimensions: 220 × 141 × 38 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. January 1984

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