Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Alfred Tarski, Jan Westerhoff and Shaughan Lavine

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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 1. Mathematical Platonism / b. Against mathematical platonism

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Modern mathematics works up to isomorphism, and doesn't care what things 'really are' [Lavine]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 7. Formalism

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Tarski's theory of truth shifted the approach away from syntax, to set theory and semantics [Feferman/Feferman on Tarski]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 10. Constructivism / b. Intuitionism

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Intuitionism rejects set-theory to found mathematics [Lavine]