Paolo Mancosu (mancosu)

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Bibliography

Easwaran, Kenny, Hájek, Alan, Mancosu, Paolo and Oppy, Graham. 2023. “Infinity.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2023/entries/infinity/.
Hafner, Johannes and Mancosu, Paolo. 2005. “The Varieties of Mathematical Explanations.” in Visualisation, Explanation and Reasoning Styles in Mathematics, edited by Paolo Mancosu, Klaus Frovin Jørgensen, and Stig Andur Pedersen, pp. 215–250. Synthese Library n. 327. Dordrecht: Springer.
Hafner, Johannes and Mancosu, Paolo. 2008. “Beyond Unification.” in The Philosophy of Mathematical Practice, edited by Paolo Mancosu, pp. 151–178. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199296453.001.0001.
Mancosu, Paolo. 1996. The Philosophy of Mathematics & Mathematical Practice in the Seventeenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Mancosu, Paolo, ed. 1998a. From Brouwer to Hilbert: The Debate on the Foundations of Mathematics in the 1920s. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Mancosu, Paolo. 1998b. “Hilbert and Bernays on Metamathematics.” in From Brouwer to Hilbert: The Debate on the Foundations of Mathematics in the 1920s, edited by Paolo Mancosu, pp. 149–188. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Mancosu, Paolo. 1999. “Review of Peckhaus (1997).” Erkenntnis 50: 133–136.
Mancosu, Paolo. 2000. “On Mathematical Explanation.” in Third Wave Feminism. A Critical Exploration, edited by Stacy Gillis, Gillian Howie, and Rebecca Munford, pp. 103–120. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
Mancosu, Paolo. 2001. “Mathematical Explanation: Problems and Prospects.” Topoi 20: 97–117.
Mancosu, Paolo. 2002. “On the Constructivity of Proofs. A Debate among Behmann, Bernays, Gödel, and Kaufmann.” in Reflections on the Foundations of Mathematics. Essays in honor of Solomon Feferman, edited by Wilfried Sieg, Richard Sommer, and Carolyn L. Talcott, pp. 349–371. Lecture Notes in Logic n. 15. Urbana, Illinois: Association for Symbolic Logic.
Mancosu, Paolo. 2003. “The Russellian Influence on Hilbert and his School.” Synthese 137(1–2): 59–101.
Mancosu, Paolo. 2005a. “Harvard 1940–1941: Tarski, Carnap and Quine on a Finitistic Language of Mathematics for Science.” History and Philosophy of Logic 26(4): 327–357.
Mancosu, Paolo. 2005b. “Visualization in Logic and Mathematics.” in Visualisation, Explanation and Reasoning Styles in Mathematics, edited by Paolo Mancosu, Klaus Frovin Jørgensen, and Stig Andur Pedersen, pp. 13–30. Synthese Library n. 327. Dordrecht: Springer.
Mancosu, Paolo, ed. 2008a. The Philosophy of Mathematical Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199296453.001.0001.
Mancosu, Paolo. 2008b. “Introduction.” in The Philosophy of Mathematical Practice, edited by Paolo Mancosu, pp. 1–21. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199296453.001.0001.
Mancosu, Paolo. 2008c. “Mathematical Explanation: Why it Matters.” in The Philosophy of Mathematical Practice, edited by Paolo Mancosu, pp. 134–150. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199296453.001.0001.
Mancosu, Paolo. 2008d. “Descartes and Mathematics.” in A Companion to Descartes, edited by Janet Broughton and John P. Carriero, pp. 103–123. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Malden, Massachusetts: Wiley-Blackwell, doi:10.1002/9780470696439.
Mancosu, Paolo. 2008e. “Tarski, Neurath, and Kokoszyńska on the Semantic Conception of Truth.” in New Essays on Tarski and Philosophy, edited by Douglas Eden Patterson, pp. 192–224. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199296309.001.0001.
Mancosu, Paolo. 2008f. “Quine and Tarski on Nominalism.” in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, volume IV, edited by Dean W. Zimmerman, pp. 22–55. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780199542987.001.0001.
Mancosu, Paolo. 2008g. “Explanation in Mathematics.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2008/entries/mathematics-explanation/.
Mancosu, Paolo. 2009a. “Measuring the Size of Infinite Collections of Natural Numbers: Was Cantor’s Theory of Infinite Number Inevitable?” The Review of Symbolic Logic 2(4): 612–646.
Mancosu, Paolo. 2009b. “Mathematical Style.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2009/entries/mathematical-style/.
Mancosu, Paolo. 2009c. “Tarski’s Engagement with Philosophy.” in The Golden Age of Polish Philosophy. Kazimierz Twardowski’s Philosophical Legacy, edited by Sandra Lapointe, Jan Woleński, Mathieu Marion, and Wioletta Miskiewicz, pp. 131–154. Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science n. 16. Dordrecht: Springer.
Mancosu, Paolo. 2010a. The Adventure of Reason. Interplay Between Philosophy of Mathematics and Mathematical Logic, 1900-1940. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199546534.001.0001.
Mancosu, Paolo. 2010b. “Fixed- versus Variable-Domain Interpretations of Tarski’s Account of Logical Consequence.” Philosophy Compass 5(9): 745–759.
Mancosu, Paolo. 2011. “Explanation in Mathematics.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2011/entries/mathematics-explanation/.
Mancosu, Paolo. 2015a. Infini, logique, géometrie. Mathesis. Paris: Librairie philosophique Jean Vrin.
Mancosu, Paolo. 2015b. “Grundlagen, Section 64: Frege’s Discussion of Definitions by Abstraction in Historical Context.” History and Philosophy of Logic 36(1): 62–89.
Mancosu, Paolo. 2016. Abstraction and Infinity. New York: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198746829.001.0001.
Mancosu, Paolo. 2017. “Mathematical Style.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2017/entries/mathematical-style/.
Mancosu, Paolo. 2018. “Explanation in Mathematics.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2018/entries/mathematics-explanation/.
Mancosu, Paolo. 2021. “Mathematical Style.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2021/entries/mathematical-style/.
Mancosu, Paolo and Arana, Andrew. 2010. “Descartes and the Cylindrical Helix.” Historia Mathematica 37(3): 403–407.
Mancosu, Paolo, Galvan, Sergio and Zach, Richard J. 2021. An Introduction to Proof Theory: Normalization, Cut-Elimination, and Consistency Proofs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780192895936.001.0001.
Mancosu, Paolo, Galvan, Sergio and Zach, Richard J. 2022. Introduction à la théorie de la démonstration. Élimination des coupures, normalisation et preuves de cohérence. Paris: Librairie philosophique Jean Vrin.
Mancosu, Paolo, Jørgensen, Klaus Frovin and Pedersen, Stig Andur, eds. 2005a. Visualisation, Explanation and Reasoning Styles in Mathematics. Synthese Library n. 327. Dordrecht: Springer.
Mancosu, Paolo, Jørgensen, Klaus Frovin and Pedersen, Stig Andur. 2005b. “Introduction.” in Visualisation, Explanation and Reasoning Styles in Mathematics, edited by Paolo Mancosu, Klaus Frovin Jørgensen, and Stig Andur Pedersen, pp. 1–9. Synthese Library n. 327. Dordrecht: Springer.
Mancosu, Paolo and Marion, Mathieu. 2003. “Wittgenstein’s Constructivization of Euler’s Proof of the Infinity of Primes.” in The Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism. Re-evaluation and future perspectives, edited by Friedrich Stadler, pp. 171–188. Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook n. 10. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Mancosu, Paolo and Mugnai, Massimo. 2023. Syllogistic Logic and Mathematical Proof. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198876922.001.0001.
Mancosu, Paolo, Poggiolesi, Francesca and Pincock, Christopher. 2023. “Mathematical Explanation.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2023/entries/mathematics-explanation/.
Mancosu, Paolo, Zach, Richard J. and Badesa, Calixto. 2009. “The Development of Mathematical Logic from Russell to Tarski, 1900–1935.” in The Development of Modern Logic, edited by Leila Haaparanta, pp. 318–470. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195137316.001.0001.
Oppy, Graham, Hájek, Alan, Easwaran, Kenny and Mancosu, Paolo. 2021. “Infinity.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2021/entries/infinity/.

Further References

Peckhaus, Volker. 1997. Logik, Mathesis universalis und allgemeine Wissenschaft. Leibniz und die Wiederentdeckung der formalen Logik im 19. Jahrhundert. Berlin: Akademie Verlag.