- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I: Some Mathematicians as Philosophers
- 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”
- Postscript to Essay 5
- 6. Quine and Gödel on Analyticity
- Postscript to Essay 6
- 7. Platonism and Mathematical Intuition in Kurt Gödel’s Thought
- Postscript to Essay 7
- Part II: Contemporaries
- 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


Philosophy of Mathematics in the Twentieth Century
Selected Essays
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