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.
