Philosophy of mathematics / edited by Anderw D. Irvine. - Amsterdam : North Holland/Elsevier, c2009. - xvi, 717 p. ; 25 cm. - Handbook of the Philosophy of Science. . - Handbook of the philosophy of science. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface / Andrew D. Irvine -- Les liaisons dangereuses / W. D. Hart -- Realism and a nit-realism in mathematics / Mark Balaguer -- Aristotelian realism / James Franklin -- Empiricism in the philosophy of mathematics / David Bostock -- A Kantian perspective on the philosophy of mathematics / Mary Tiles -- Logicism / Jaakko Hintikka -- Formalism / Peter Simons -- Constructivism in mathematics / Charles McCarty -- Fictionalism / Daniel Bonevac -- Set theory from Cantor to Cohen / Akihiro Kanamori -- Alternative set theories / Peter Apostoli, et. al. -- Philosophies of probability / Jon Williamson -- On computability / Wilfried Sieg -- Inconsistent mathematics / Chris Mortensen -- Mathematics and the world / Mark Colyvan.

9780444515551 (hbk.) 0444515550 (hbk.)


Mathematics--Philosophy.

510.1 / PHI 2009