By Hilary Putnam, Paul Benacerraf

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The 20th century has witnessed an remarkable 'crisis within the foundations of mathematics', that includes a world-famous paradox (Russell's Paradox), a problem to 'classical' arithmetic from a world-famous mathematician (the 'mathematical intuitionism' of Brouwer), a brand new foundational tuition (Hilbert's Formalism), and the profound incompleteness result of Kurt Gödel. within the comparable interval, the cross-fertilization of arithmetic and philosophy ended in a brand new kind of 'mathematical philosophy', linked such a lot significantly (but in several methods) with Bertrand Russell, W. V. Quine, and Gödel himself, and which continues to be on the concentration of Anglo-Saxon philosophical dialogue. the current assortment brings jointly in a handy shape the seminal articles within the philosophy of arithmetic through those and different significant thinkers. it's a considerably revised model of the version first released in 1964 and contains a revised bibliography. the quantity should be welcomed as an important paintings of reference at this point within the field.

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