Paolo Mancosu presents an innovative set of studies of logic and the foundations of mathematics in the first half of the twentieth century. He sheds new light on important topics such as the relationship between phenomenology and the exact sciences, the nature of truth and logical consequence, and the nature of mathematical intuition.

• Preface


• Part 1: History of Logic


• 1: The Development of Mathematical Logic from Russell to Tarski, 1900-1935


• Oart 2: Foundations of Mathematics


• 2: Hilbert and Bernays on Metamathematics


• 3: Between Russell and Hilbert: Behmann on the foundations of mathematics


• 4: The Russellian influence on Hilbert and his school


• 5: On the constructivity of proofs


• 6: Wittgenstein's constructivization of Euler's proof of the infinitude of primes


• 7: Between Vienna and Berlin: The immediate reception of Gödel's incompleteness theorems


• 8: Essay Review of Gödel's Collected Works (volumes IV and V)


• Part 3: Phenomenology and Mathematics


• 9: Hermann Weyl: Predicativity and an intuitionistic excursion


• 10: Mathematics and Phenomenology: the correspondence between O. Becker and H. Weyl


• 11: Geometry, Physics and Phenomenology: Four letters of O. Becker to H. Weyl


• 12: Das Abenteuer der Vernunft: O. Becker and D. Mahnke on the phenomenological foundation of the exact sciences


• Part 4: Nominalism


• 13: Harvard 1940-1941: Tarski, Carnap and Quine on a finitist language of mathematics for science


• 14: Quine and Tarski on nominalism


• Part 5: The emergence of semantics: truth and logical consequence


• 15: Neurath and Kokoszynska on the semantic conception of truth


• 16: Tarski on models and logical consequence


• 17: Tarski on Categoricity and Completeness: an unpublished lecture from 1940


• 18: Archival Appendix. "On the completeness and categoricity of deductive theories" (1940), By Alfred Tarski.


• Bibliography

Paolo Mancosu is Professor of Philosophy at University of California Berkeley. His main interests are in logic, history and philosophy of mathematics, and history and philosophy of logic.