Mathematical naturalism: Origins, guises, and prospects [Book Review]

Foundations of Science 11 (1-2):5-39 (2006)
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Abstract

During the first half of the twentieth century, mainstream answers to the foundational crisis, mainly triggered by Russell and Gödel, remained largely perfectibilist in nature. Along with a general naturalist wave in the philosophy of science, during the second half of that century, this idealist picture was finally challenged and traded in for more realist ones. Next to the necessary preliminaries, the present paper proposes a structured view of various philosophical accounts of mathematics indebted to this general idea, laying the ground for a desirable integration of their strenghts.

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