In the past century, mainstream philosophy of mathematics has claimed that the philosophy of mathematics cannot concern itself with the making of mathematics but only with finished mathematics, namely mathematics as presented in published works.
This book presents Gödel’s incompleteness theorems and the other limitative results which are most significant for the philosophy of mathematics. The text is self-contained, all... Læs mere
This monograph addresses the question of the increasing irrelevance of philosophy, which has seen scientists as well as philosophers concluding that philosophy is dead and has dissolved into the sciences.