Re: article on schools of foundations of mathematics

From: bernard massé (masb_at_videotron.ca)
Date: 01/18/05 

Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 12:26:33 -0500

As a start, you can read
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mathematics

Bernard Massé

"Mitch Harris" <harrisq@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> a écrit dans le message de
news: 354r1eF4jjhvvU1@news.dfncis.de...
>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
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