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Philosophies of Mathematics

By: Alexander George (Amherst College) and DANIEL VELLEMAN (Amherst College)

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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.

TopTable of Contents

Preface.
1. Introduction.
2. Logicism.
3. Set Theory.
4. Intuitionism.
5. Intuitionistic Mathematics.
6. Finitism.
7. The Incompleteness Theorems.
8. Coda.
References.
Index.

TopAbout the Author

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).