Reviews
"Written in a lively, engaging style and is filled with penetrating analyses and careful thought. I recommend it to anyone with a serious interest in the philosophy of mathematics."--Mind"An important book....It helps sharpen and deepen our understanding of some of the most interesting issues in the philosophy of mathematics, and it thereby pushes our subject forward."--Philosophia Mathematica, 'an important work in the philosophy of mathematics, well deserving of more careful study and analysis than there has been room for here'John P. Burgess, Princeton University, The Philosophical Review, Vol. 101, No. 4, (October 1992), "Written in a lively, engaging style and is filled with penetrating analyses and careful thought. I recommend it to anyone with a serious interest in the philosophy of mathematics."-- Mind "An important book....It helps sharpen and deepen our understanding of some of the most interesting issues in the philosophy of mathematics, and it thereby pushes our subject forward."-- Philosophia Mathematica, 'More than half of this important book is devoted to extended, largely informal discussions of just about everybody engaged in post-Quinean philosophy of mathematics ... Especially delightful are Chihara's exchanges with all or almost all of these philosophers in the form of personalcorrespondence.'Review of Metaphysics, "Written in a lively, engaging style and is filled with penetrating analyses and careful thought. I recommend it to anyone with a serious interest in the philosophy of mathematics."--Mind "An important book....It helps sharpen and deepen our understanding of some of the most interesting issues in the philosophy of mathematics, and it thereby pushes our subject forward."--Philosophia Mathematica, 'the book is written in a lively, engaging style and is filled with penetrating analyses and careful thought ... I recommend it to anyone with a serious interest in the philosophy of mathematics.'Stewart Shapiro, Ohio State University, Mind, Vol. 101, No. 402, April 1992, 'More than half of this important book is devoted to extended, largely informal discussions of just about everybody engaged in post-Quinean philosophy of mathematics ... Especially delightful are Chihara's exchanges with all or almost all of these philosophers in the form of personal correspondence.'Review of Metaphysics'the book is written in a lively, engaging style and is filled with penetrating analyses and careful thought ... I recommend it to anyone with a serious interest in the philosophy of mathematics.'Stewart Shapiro, Ohio State University, Mind, Vol. 101, No. 402, April 1992'an important work in the philosophy of mathematics, well deserving of more careful study and analysis than there has been room for here'John P. Burgess, Princeton University, The Philosophical Review, Vol. 101, No. 4, (October 1992)