Table of Contents

Part I. Reason, Science, and Mathematics: 1. Science as a triumph of the human spirit and science in crisis: Husserl and the Fortunes of Reason; 2. Mathematics and transcendental phenomenology; Part II. Kurt Godel, Phenomenology and the Philosophy of Mathematics: 3. Kurt Godel and phenomenology; 4. Godel's philosophical remarks on mathematics and logic; 5. Godel's path from the incompleteness theorems (1931) to Phenomenology (1961); 6. Godel and the intuition of concepts; 7. Godel and Quine on meaning and mathematics; 8. Maddy on realism in mathematics; 9. Penrose and the view that minds are not machines; Part III. Constructivism, Fulfilled Intentions, and Origins: 10. Intuitionism, meaning theory and cognition; 11. The philosophical background of Weyl's mathematical constructivism; 12. What is a proof?; 13. Phenomenology and mathematical knowledge; 14. Logicism, impredicativity, formalism; 15. The philosophy of arithmetic: Frege and Husserl.

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In this 2005 book, logic, mathematical knowledge and objects are explored alongside reason and intuition in the exact sciences.