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  1. Mathematical Thought and its Objects.Charles Parsons - 2007 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Charles Parsons examines the notion of object, with the aim to navigate between nominalism, denying that distinctively mathematical objects exist, and forms of Platonism that postulate a transcendent realm of such objects. He introduces the central mathematical notion of structure and defends a version of the structuralist view of mathematical objects, according to which their existence is relative to a structure and they have no more of a 'nature' than that confers on them. Parsons also analyzes the concept of intuition (...)
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  2. The structuralist view of mathematical objects.Charles Parsons - 1990 - Synthese 84 (3):303 - 346.
  3. Mathematics in philosophy: selected essays.Charles Parsons - 1983 - Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
    This important book by a major American philosopher brings together eleven essays treating problems in logic and the philosophy of mathematics.
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  4. The liar paradox.Charles Parsons - 1974 - Journal of Philosophical Logic 3 (4):381 - 412.
  5. Frege's theory of numbers.Charles Parsons - 1964 - In Max Black, Philosophy in America. Ithaca: Routledge. pp. 180-203.
  6. X*—Mathematical Intuition.Charles Parsons - 1980 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 80 (1):145-168.
    Charles Parsons; X*—Mathematical Intuition, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 80, Issue 1, 1 June 1980, Pages 145–168, https://doi.org/10.1093/ari.
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    The Foundations of Mathematics.Charles Parsons & Evert W. Beth - 1961 - Philosophical Review 70 (4):553.
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  8. (1 other version)Platonism and mathematical intuition in Kurt gödel's thought.Charles Parsons - 1995 - Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 1 (1):44-74.
    The best known and most widely discussed aspect of Kurt Gödel's philosophy of mathematics is undoubtedly his robust realism or platonism about mathematical objects and mathematical knowledge. This has scandalized many philosophers but probably has done so less in recent years than earlier. Bertrand Russell's report in his autobiography of one or more encounters with Gödel is well known:Gödel turned out to be an unadulterated Platonist, and apparently believed that an eternal “not” was laid up in heaven, where virtuous logicians (...)
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  9. Sets and classes.Charles Parsons - 1974 - Noûs 8 (1):1-12.
  10. (1 other version)Mathematics in Philosophy.Charles Parsons - 1986 - Philosophy of Science 53 (4):588-606.
     
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  11. Structuralism and metaphysics.Charles Parsons - 2004 - Philosophical Quarterly 54 (214):56--77.
    I consider different versions of a structuralist view of mathematical objects, according to which characteristic mathematical objects have no more of a 'nature' than is given by the basic relations of a structure in which they reside. My own version of such a view is non-eliminative in the sense that it does not lead to a programme for eliminating reference to mathematical objects. I reply to criticisms of non-eliminative structuralism recently advanced by Keränen and Hellman. In replying to the former, (...)
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  12. Kant's philosophy of arithmetic.Charles Parsons - 1982 - In Ralph Charles Sutherland Walker, Kant on Pure Reason. New York: Oxford University Press.
  13. 2 The Transcendental Aesthetic.Charles Parsons - 1992 - In Paul Guyer, The Cambridge companion to Kant. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 3--62.
  14. Mathematics in Philosophy: Selected Essays.Charles Parsons - 1985 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 36 (4):437-457.
     
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  15. The Problem of Absolute Universality.Charles Parsons - 2006 - In Agustín Rayo & Gabriel Uzquiano, Absolute generality. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 203--19.
  16. Infinity and Kant's conception of the "possibility of experience".Charles Parsons - 1964 - Philosophical Review 73 (2):182-197.
  17. On n-quantifier induction.Charles Parsons - 1972 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 37 (3):466-482.
  18. Arithmetic and the categories.Charles Parsons - 1984 - Topoi 3 (2):109-121.
  19. Finitism and intuitive knowledge.Charles Parsons - 1998 - In Matthias Schirn, The Philosophy of Mathematics Today: Papers From a Conference Held in Munich From June 28 to July 4,1993. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press. pp. 249--270.
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  20. A plea for substitutional quantification.Charles Parsons - 1971 - Journal of Philosophy 68 (8):231-237.
  21. Ontology and mathematics.Charles Parsons - 1971 - Philosophical Review 80 (2):151-176.
  22. On some difficulties concerning intuition and intuitive knowledge.Charles Parsons - 1993 - Mind 102 (406):233-246.
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  23. The impredicativity of induction.Charles Parsons - 1992 - In Michael Detlefsen, Proof, Logic and Formalization. London, England: Routledge. pp. 139--161.
     
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    From Kant to Husserl: selected essays.Charles Parsons - 2012 - Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
    The transcendental aesthetic -- Arithmetic and the categories -- Remarks on pure natural science -- Two studies in the reception of Kant's philosophy of arithmetic: postscript to part I -- Some remarks on Frege's conception of extension -- Postscript to essay 5 -- Frege's correspondence: postscript to essay 6 -- Brentano on judgment and truth -- Husserl and the linguistic turn.
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  25. Reason and intuition.Charles Parsons - 2000 - Synthese 125 (3):299-315.
  26. Quine on the Philosophy of Mathematics.Charles Parsons - 1986 - In Lewis Edwin Hahn & Paul Arthur Schilpp, The Philosophy of W.V. Quine. Chicago: Open Court. pp. 369-395.
     
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  27. Intensional logic in extensional language.Charles Parsons - 1982 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 47 (2):289-328.
  28. Objects and Logic.Charles Parsons - 1982 - The Monist 65 (4):491-516.
    The language of mathematics speaks of objects. This is a rather trivial statement; it is not certain that we can conceive any developed language that does not. What is of interest is that, taken at face value, mathematical language speaks of objects distinctively mathematical in character: numbers, functions, sets, geometric figures, and the like. To begin with they are distinctive in being abstract.
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  29. Infinity and a Critical View of Logic.Charles Parsons - 2015 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 58 (1):1-19.
    The paper explores the view that in mathematics, in particular where the infinite is involved, the application of classical logic to statements involving the infinite cannot be taken for granted. L. E. J. Brouwer’s well-known rejection of classical logic is sketched, and the views of David Hilbert and especially Hermann Weyl, both of whom used classical logic in their mathematical practice, are explored. We inquire whether arguments for a critical view can be found that are independent of constructivist premises and (...)
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  30. Developing arithmetic in set theory without infinity: some historical remarks.Charles Parsons - 1987 - History and Philosophy of Logic 8 (2):201-213.
    In this paper some of the history of the development of arithmetic in set theory is traced, particularly with reference to the problem of avoiding the assumption of an infinite set. Although the standard method of singling out a sequence of sets to be the natural numbers goes back to Zermelo, its development was more tortuous than is generally believed. We consider the development in the light of three desiderata for a solution and argue that they can probably not all (...)
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    Philosophy of Mathematics in the Twentieth Century: Selected Essays.Charles Parsons - 2013 - Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
    In these selected essays, Charles Parsons surveys the contributions of philosophers and mathematicians who shaped the philosophy of mathematics over the past century: Brouwer, Hilbert, Bernays, Weyl, Gödel, Russell, Quine, Putnam, Wang, and Tait.
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    Brentano on Judgement and Truth.Charles Parsons - 2004 - In Dale Jacquette, The Cambridge companion to Brentano. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 168.
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    Structuralism and the concept of set.Charles Parsons - 1997 - In Evandro Agazzi & György Darvas, Philosophy of Mathematics Today. Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 171--194.
  34. Gödel and philosophical idealism.Charles Parsons - 2010 - Philosophia Mathematica 18 (2):166-192.
    Kurt Gödel made many affirmations of robust realism but also showed serious engagement with the idealist tradition, especially with Leibniz, Kant, and Husserl. The root of this apparently paradoxical attitude is his conviction of the power of reason. The paper explores the question of how Gödel read Kant. His argument that relativity theory supports the idea of the ideality of time is discussed critically, in particular attempting to explain the assertion that science can go beyond the appearances and ‘approach the (...)
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    Some Consequences of the Entanglement of Logic and Mathematics.Charles Parsons - 2013 - In Michael Frauchiger, Reference, Rationality, and Phenomenology: Themes from Føllesdal. De Gruyter. pp. 153-178.
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    Informal axiomatization, formalization and the concept of truth.Charles Parsons - 1974 - Synthese 27 (1-2):27 - 47.
  37. Wright on Abstraction and Set Theory.Charles Parsons - 1997 - In Richard G. Heck, Language, Thought, and Logic: Essays in Honour of Michael Dummett. New York: Oxford University Press.
     
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    Kurt Gödel: essays for his centennial.Kurt Gödel, Solomon Feferman, Charles Parsons & Stephen G. Simpson (eds.) - 2010 - Ithaca, NY: Association for Symbolic Logic.
    Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) did groundbreaking work that transformed logic and other important aspects of our understanding of mathematics, especially his proof of the incompleteness of formalized arithmetic. This book on different aspects of his work and on subjects in which his ideas have contemporary resonance includes papers from a May 2006 symposium celebrating Gödel's centennial as well as papers from a 2004 symposium. Proof theory, set theory, philosophy of mathematics, and the editing of Gödel's writings are among the topics covered. (...)
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    (1 other version)Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege.Charles Parsons - 1981 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 46 (4):870-871.
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  40. Mathematics, foundations of.Charles Parsons - 1967 - In Paul Edwards, The Encyclopedia of philosophy. New York,: Macmillan. pp. 5--188.
  41. Quine's Nominalism.Charles Parsons - 2011 - American Philosophical Quarterly 48 (3):213-228.
     
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    The Nature of Mathematical Knowledge.Charles Parsons - 1986 - Philosophical Review 95 (1):129.
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    Frege: Philosophy of Mathematics. [REVIEW]Charles Parsons - 1996 - Philosophical Review 105 (4):540.
    This work is the long awaited sequel to the author’s classic Frege: Philosophy of Language. But it is not exactly what the author originally planned. He tells us that when he resumed work on the book in the summer of 1989, after a long interruption, he decided to start afresh. The resulting work followed a different plan from the original drafts. The reader does not know what was lost by their abandonment, but clearly much was gained: The present work may (...)
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  44. Kurt Gödel. Essays for his centennial.Solomon Feferman, Charles Parsons & Stephen G. Simpson - 2011 - Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 17 (1):125-126.
     
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    On translating logic.Charles Parsons - 1974 - Synthese 27 (3-4):405 - 411.
    The paper comments on Dummett's Significance of Quine's Indeterminacy Thesis and discusses Quine's views on the translation of logical connectives. Some difficulties about the latter related to those raised by Morton (J. Phil. 70 (1973), 503–510) are considered. Quine seems here to be in a position considered by Dummett of not allowing a foreigner to be translated as conflicting with one's own firm theoretical commitment (in this case classical logic). But Dummett seems wrong in holding that entrenched theoretical statements must (...)
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    Quine and Godel on analyticity.Charles Parsons - 1995 - In Paolo Leonardi & Marco Santambrogio, On Quine: New Essays. New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press. pp. 297--313.
  47. Hao Wang as philosopher and interpreter of gödel.Charles Parsons - 1998 - Philosophia Mathematica 6 (1):3-24.
    The paper undertakes to characterize Hao Wang's style, convictions, and method as a philosopher, centering on his most important philosophical work From Mathematics to Philosophy, 1974. The descriptive character of Wang's characteristic method is emphasized. Some specific achievements are discussed: his analyses of the concept of set, his discussion, in connection with setting forth Gödel's views, of minds and machines, and his concept of ‘analytic empiricism’ used to criticize Carnap and Quine. Wang's work as interpreter of Gödel's thought and the (...)
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    How Many Questions?L. S. Cauman, Isaac Levi, Charles D. Parsons & Robert Schwartz (eds.) - 1983 - Hacket.
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    A propositional calculus intermediate between the minimal calculus and the classical.Charles Parsons - 1966 - Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 7 (4):353-358.
  50. Husserl and the linguistic turn.Charles Parsons - 2001 - In Juliet Floyd & Sanford Shieh, Future pasts: the analytic tradition in twentieth-century philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 123--41.
     
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