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  1. The reality of numbers: a physicalist's philosophy of mathematics.John Bigelow - 1988 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    Challenging the myth that mathematical objects can be defined into existence, Bigelow here employs Armstrong's metaphysical materialism to cast new light on mathematics. He identifies natural, real, and imaginary numbers and sets with specified physical properties and relations and, by so doing, draws mathematics back from its sterile, abstract exile into the midst of the physical world.
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  • Principia mathematica.A. N. Whitehead - 1926 - Mind 35 (137):130.
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  • Logic and Arithmetic. Vol. 2: Rational and Irrational Numbers.Mary Tiles & David Bostock - 1981 - Philosophical Quarterly 31 (124):277.
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  • The nature of number.Peter Forrest & D. M. Armstrong - 1987 - Philosophical Papers 16 (3):165-186.
    The article develops and extends the theory of Glenn Kessler (Frege, Mill and the foundations of arithmetic, Journal of Philosophy 77, 1980) that a (cardinal) number is a relation between a heap and a unit-making property that structures the heap. For example, the relation between some swan body mass and "being a swan on the lake" could be 4.
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  • A Theory of Universals. Universals and Scientific Realism Volume Ii.David Malet Armstrong - 1978 - Cambridge University Press.
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  • Space, time, and causality: an essay in natural philosophy.John Randolph Lucas - 1984 - New York: Clarendon Press.
    Space, Time and Causality An Essay in Natural Philosophy.
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