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Archive | 2016

Comments on Reduction (Lecture in a Graduate Seminar ~1975)

Paul Benacerraf

There appear to be two kinds of theories on the nature of numbers, distinguished by the way they interpret their results.


Archive | 1994

Paul Ziff, 1958–1960: A Reminiscence

Paul Benacerraf

The following remarks have a personal character that I hope will be forgiven; its justification will lie in any light they might shed on Paul Ziff — and also in some small measure, in the tribute (and gratitude) that they are meant to express. Although presented from a single perspective — the one from which I see best — they give, I think, an objective account of certain important but under-appreciated aspects of a complex man. In this regard, I know that I speak for many.


PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association | 1984

Comments on Maddy and Tymoczko

Paul Benacerraf

My remarks are largely exploratory, and not at all faithful to the title of the symposium; indeed, they skirt most of the fascinating issues discussed by Maddy and Tymoczko. Furthermore, I have no settled position on the issues that I raise. In fact, in a recent paper (Benacerraf 1985) I advance a platonist line much like the one so effectively derided by Tymoczko (and which he has confessed he believes as well). Although I will not argue the point, I do believe this much: they are interesting issues that deserve to be raised and given careful consideration, no matter what their ultimate disposition. I will let the questions speak for themselves.


Archive | 1983

Philosophy of Mathematics

Hilary Putnam; Paul Benacerraf


Archive | 1964

Philosophy of Mathematics: Selected Readings

Paul Benacerraf; Hilary Putnam


The Monist | 1967

God, The Devil, And Gödel

Paul Benacerraf


The Journal of Philosophy | 1962

Tasks, Super-Tasks, and the Modern Eleatics

Paul Benacerraf


Midwest Studies in Philosophy | 1981

Frege: The Last Logicist1

Paul Benacerraf


Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume | 1985

Skolem and the Skeptic

Paul Benacerraf; Crispin Wright


Archive | 1996

What mathematical truth could not be

Paul Benacerraf

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