Abstract

This book fills the need for a first rate anthology of readings in the philosophy of mathematics. The subject is interpreted broadly and several familiar and easily accessible papers, such as Nagel's "Logic Without Ontology," Carnap's "Empiricism, Semantics and Ontology," and Quine's "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" take up valuable space. An entire section consists of papers dealing with Wittgenstein's views on mathematics. The introduction is succinct and helpful. But a more careful selection of inaccessible papers, the addition of introductions to the individual parts, and a more extensive bibliography would have made this a much more useful anthology.—R. J. B.