Last bastion of reason [Book Review]

New Criterion 18 (9):74-78 (2000)
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Attacks the irrationalism of Lakatos's Proofs and Refutations and defends mathematics as a "last bastion" of reason against postmodernist and deconstructionist currents.

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Against method.Paul Feyerabend - 1975 - London: New Left Books.
Proofs and refutations: the logic of mathematical discovery.Imre Lakatos (ed.) - 1976 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
Lakatos: An Introduction.Brendan Larvor - 1998 - New York: Routledge.
Social Constructivism as a Philosophy of Mathematics.Paul Ernest - 1997 - Albany, NY, USA: State University of New York Press.

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