[FOM] FOM, Re: Incentives for the development of philosophical views...

Irving Anellis irving.anellis at gmail.com
Thu Dec 22 12:57:21 EST 2011


Good sources on the foundational problem include, but are not limited to:

Paolo Mancosu (ed.), From Brouwer to Hilbert: The Debate on the
Foundations of Mathematics in the 1920s (New York & Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1998); Ivor Grattan-Guinness, The Search for
Mathematical Roots: Logics, Set Theories znd the Foundations of
Mathematics from Cantor through Russell and Goedel (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2000), and Leila Haaparanta (ed.), The
Development of Modern Logic (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009),
and the short expository and interpretive essay Ernest Snapper, "The
Three Crises in Mathematics: Logicism, Intuitionism, and Formalism",
Mathematics Magazine 52 (1979), 207-216.

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