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  1. On Mental Entities.Willard V. Quine - 1976 - In Willard Van Orman Quine (ed.), The ways of paradox, and other essays. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
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  • Indispensability and Practice.Penelope Maddy - 1992 - Journal of Philosophy 89 (6):275.
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  • Realism, underdetermination, and a causal theory of evidence.Richard Boyd - 1973 - Noûs 7 (1):1-12.
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  • Mathematics and indispensability.Elliott Sober - 1993 - Philosophical Review 102 (1):35-57.
    Realists persuaded by indispensability arguments af- firm the existence of numbers, genes, and quarks. Van Fraassen's empiricism remains agnostic with respect to all three. The point of agreement is that the posits of mathematics and the posits of biology and physics stand orfall together. The mathematical Platonist can take heart from this consensus; even if the existence of num- bers is still problematic, it seems no more problematic than the existence of genes or quarks. If the two positions just described (...)
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  • Review. [REVIEW]Barry Gower - 1997 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 48 (1):555-559.
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  • Realism, conventionality, and `realism about'.Richard Boyd - 1990 - In George Boolos (ed.), Meaning and Method: Essays in Honor of Hilary Putnam. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 171--95.
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  • The Constructibility Quantifiers.Charles S. Chihara - 1990 - In Constructibility and mathematical existence. New York: Oxford University Press.
    Sketches the basic idea for the approach taken. A mathematical system is to be developed in which the existential theorems of traditional mathematics are to be replaced by constructibility theorems: where, in traditional mathematics, it is asserted that such and such exists, it will be asserted in this system that something or other can be constructed. Thus, constructibility quantifiers are introduced in this chapter as logical constants of formal systems. The logic of the constructibility quantifier is explained in each case (...)
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