This volume features essays about and by Paul Benacerraf, whose ideas have circulated in the philosophical community since the early nineteen sixties, shaping k

'Science has never had an advocate quite like David Deutsch ... A computational physicist on a par with his touchstones Alan Turing and Richard Feynman, and a p

If we take mathematical statements to be true, must we also believe in the existence of abstract invisible mathematical objects? This text claims that the way t

Mancosu offers an original investigation of key notions in mathematics: abstraction and infinity, and their interaction. He gives a historical analysis of the t

The book contains popular expositions (accessible to readers with no more than a high school mathematics background) on the mathematical theory of infinity, and