Charles Parsons holds an AB (mathematics) and PhD (philosophy) from Harvard University and studied for a year at King's College, Cambridge. He was on the faculty at Harvard University from 1962-5 and 1989-2005 and at Columbia University from 1965-89. His publications are mainly in logic, philosophy of mathematics, and Kant. He was an editor of the posthumous works of Kurt Gödel (Collected Works, Volumes III-V).
Preface
1. Objects and logic
2. Structuralism and nominalism
3. Modality and structuralism
4. A problem about sets
5. Intuition
6. Numbers as objects
7. Intuitive arithmetic and its limits
8. Mathematical induction
9. Reason.
