Philosophia Mathematica Advance Access originally published online on January 16, 2008
Philosophia Mathematica 2008 16(1):1-3; doi:10.1093/philmat/nkm049
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Introduction
* Department of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, U.S.A.
Correspondence: tennant.9@osu.edu
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This Special Issue contains five contributions, all of them dealing either with Carnap's influence on debates in the philosophy of mathematics, or with the thought of important contemporaries of Carnap—sympathizers such as Scholz and Weyl, and critics such as Gödel and Kreisel. The contributions were originally solicited in service of the theme The legacy of Logical Positivism for the philosophy of mathematics. As is often the case with joint enterprises among independent scholars, however, divergences in focus and problems resulted in a somewhat more loosely related set of essays.
Gregory Lavers, in his essay Carnap,