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  1. The Provenance of Pure Reason: Essays in the Philosophy of Mathematics and its History.William Walker Tait - 2004 - Oxford, England: Oup Usa.
    William Tait is one of the most distinguished philosophers of mathematics of the last fifty years. This volume collects his most important published philosophical papers from the 1980's to the present. The articles cover a wide range of issues in the foundations and philosophy of mathematics, including some on historical figures ranging from Plato to Gdel.
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  • Proper forcing and remarkable cardinals.Ralf-Dieter Schindler - 2000 - Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 6 (2):176-184.
    The present paper investigates the power of proper forcings to change the shape of the universe, in a certain well-defined respect. It turns out that the ranking among large cardinals can be used as a measure for that power. However, in order to establish the final result I had to isolate a new large cardinal concept, which I dubbed “remarkability.” Let us approach the exact formulation of the problem—and of its solution—at a slow pace.Breathtaking developments in the mid 1980s found (...)
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  • Mathematics Without Numbers: Towards a Modal-Structural Interpretation.Geoffrey Hellman - 1989 - Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
    Develops a structuralist understanding of mathematics, as an alternative to set- or type-theoretic foundations, that respects classical mathematical truth while ...
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  • The Search for New Axioms.Peter Koellner - 2003 - Dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    The independence results in set theory invite the search for new and justified axioms. In Chapter 1 I set the stage by examining three approaches to justifying the axioms of standard set theory and argue that the approach via reflection principles is the most successful. In Chapter 2 I analyse the limitations of ZF and use this analysis to set up a mathematically precise minimal hurdle which any set of new axioms must overcome if it is to effect a significant (...)
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  • On reflection principles.Peter Koellner - 2009 - Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 157 (2-3):206-219.
    Gödel initiated the program of finding and justifying axioms that effect a significant reduction in incompleteness and he drew a fundamental distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic justifications. Reflection principles are the most promising candidates for new axioms that are intrinsically justified. Taking as our starting point Tait’s work on general reflection principles, we prove a series of limitative results concerning this approach. These results collectively show that general reflection principles are either weak ) or inconsistent. The philosophical significance of these (...)
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  • Mathematics without Numbers. Towards a Modal-Structural Interpretation.Geoffrey Hellman - 1991 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 53 (4):726-727.
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