Mathematics and logic present crucial cases in deciding whether the
world is of our making or whether some form of realism is true.
Edmund Husserl, who was initially a mathematician, discusses this
general question extensively, but although his views influenced the
Dutch intuitionists and were taken very seriously by Godel, they
have not been widely appreciated among analytical philosophers. In
this book Robert Tragesser sets out to determine the conditions
under which a realist ontology of mathematics and logic might be
justified, taking as his starting point Husserl's treatment of
these metaphysical problems. He does not aim primarily at an
exposition of Husserl's phenomenology, although many of the central
claims of phenomenology are clarified here. Rather he exploits its
ideas and methods to show how they can contribute to answering
Michael Dummet's question 'Realism or Anti-Realism?'. In doing so
he makes a challenging and provocative contribution to the debate."
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