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• - Article by Paul Ernest.
  
• - In 1921, David Hilbert made a proposal for a formalist foundation of mathematics, for which a finitary consistency proof should establish the security of mathematics. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Richard Zach.
  
• - Inconsistent mathematics is the study of the mathematical theories that result when classical mathematical axioms are asserted within the framework of a (non-classical) logic which can tolerate the presence of a contradiction without turning every sente
  
• - By Richard Stefanik (Washington: MSG Press,1994).
  
• - Bulletin, members' pages, meetings.
  
• - A paper by Harold Ravitch, Los Angeles Valley College.
  
• - Notes to a class by Carl Posy at Duke University, Fall 1992.
  
• - An enlarged paradigm of mathematical reality that includes psychology as an integral component.
  
• - Arché Research Project at the University of St Andrews. Description of the project, sponsors, researchers and publications.
  
• - A study guide on the Philosophy of Mathematics provided by The Objectivist Center, including a study guide on the subject.
  
• - Intuitionistic logic encompasses the principles of logical reasoning which were used by L. E. J. Brouwer in developing his intuitionistic mathematics, beginning in [1907]. Because these principles also underly Russian recursive analysis and the construc
  
• - Online article by Volker Peckhaus.
  
• - Constructive mathematics is distinguished from its traditional counterpart, classical mathematics, by the strict interpretation of the phrase `there exists' as `we can construct'. In order to work constructively, we need to re-interpret not only the exis
  
• - From the fact that mathematics is indispensable to science, some philosophers have drawn serious metaphysical conclusions. In particular, Quine and Putnam have argued that the indispensability of mathematics to empirical science gives us good reason to b
  
• - Notes by R.B. Jones of foundations, problems, logicism and philosophers of mathematics.
  
• - Based at School of Education, University of Exeter, United Kingdom, includes the text of back issues of the Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal, and other papers on the philosophy of mathematics and related subjects.
  
• - Research topics include mathematical models and theories in the empirical sciences, models and theories in mathematics, category theory, and the use of mathematical structures in theoretical computer science. Bibliographic data.
  
• - Links to pages on individual philosophers.
  
• - Philosophical-historical survey of the development of geometry in the 19th century. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Roberto Toretti.