Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 THE KANTIAN LEGACY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICS -- 2 REALISM AND THE DEBATE ON IMPREDICATIVITY, 1917-1944 -- POSTSCRIPT TO ESSAY 2 -- 3 PAUL BERNAYS'LATER PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS -- 4 KURT GÖDEL -- 5 GÖDEL'S "RUSSELL'S MATHEMATICAL LOGIC" -- 6 QUINE AND GÖDEL ON ANALYTICITY -- POSTSCRIPT TO ESSAY 6 -- 7 PLATONISM AND MATHEMATICAL INTUITION IN KURT GÖDEL'S THOUGHT -- POST SCRIPT TO ESSAY 7 -- 8 QUINE'S NOMINALISM -- 9 GENETIC EXPLANATION IN THE ROOTS OF REFERENCE -- 10 HAO WANG AS PHILOSOPHER AND INTERPRETER OF GÖDEL -- 11 PUTNAM ON EXISTENCE AND ONTOLOGY -- 12 WILLIAM TAIT'S PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX
Summary
In this illuminating collection, Charles Parsons surveys the contributions of philosophers and mathematicians who shaped the philosophy of mathematics over the course of the past century
