article on schools of foundations of mathematics
From: Mitch Harris (harrisq_at_tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de)
Date: 01/18/05
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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:15:42 +0100
I am at a loss. A couple of years ago I read an article (online) that
described a number of "schools" of foundations of mathematics. But now
that I am curious to read it again, I can't find it.
The article started by briefly discussing a number of classical
schools (platonism, logicism, formalism, intuitionism, maybe more),
then jumping into deeper descriptions of a large handful more. The
upshot of the article (as much as I remember) was that all of these
schools had difficulties (and it discussed them).
Does this ring a bell? I can't remember the author's name (though I do
remember that he was not unknown). I don't think it was very recent
(past ten years) but it was not too far in the past (beyond 40 years
ago). I couldn't get google or mathscinet to help me find it.
Any ideas?
-- Mitch Harris (remove q to reply)
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