Philosophy of mathematics
by Stewart Shapiro · first published 1997
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…Gottlob Frege, Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding J.S. Mill, On Liberty John Rawls, A Theory of Justice Stewart Shapiro, Philosophy of Mathematics: Structure and Ontology
on “Ask HN: Best Philosophical Books?” ↗There are those philosophers which are as concerned with logic as you'd expect from a pure mathematician ;-) If you're interested, Shapiro's "Thinking about Mathematics: The Philosophy of Mathematics" gives a nice introduction into that topic, discussing several schools of philosophy and their thinkers (without forcing the authors pov on the reader). We had a seminar discussing that book, and while…
on “Hegelian contradiction and the prime numbers (part 2)” ↗