This volume is a collection of papers on philosophy of mathematics
which deal with a series of questions quite different from those
which occupied the minds of the proponents of the three classic
schools: logicism, formalism, and intuitionism. The questions of
the volume are not to do with justification in the traditional
sense, but with a variety of other topics. Some are concerned with
discovery and the growth of mathematics. How does the semantics of
mathematics change as the subject develops? What heuristics are
involved in mathematical discovery, and do such heuristics
constitute a logic of mathematical discovery? What new problems
have been introduced by the development of mathematics since the
1930s? Other questions are concerned with the applications of
mathematics both to physics and to the new field of computer
science. Then there is the new question of whether the axiomatic
method is really so essential to mathematics as is often supposed,
and the question, which goes back to Wittgenstein, of the sense in
which mathematical proofs are compelling. Taking these questions
together they give part of an emerging agenda which is likely to
carry philosophy of mathematics forward into the twenty first
century.
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