Hilbert's Programs and Beyond

Wilfried Sieg is the Patrick Suppes Professor of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1977. From 1977 to 1985, he was Assistant and Associate Professor at Columbia University. In 1985, he joined the Carnegie Mellon faculty as a founding member of the University's Philosophy Department and served as its Head from 1994 to 2005. He is internationally known for mathematical work in proof theory, historical work on modern logic and mathematics, and philosophical essays on the nature of mathematics. Sieg is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

• INTRODUCTION; I. MATHEMATICAL ROOTS; II. ANALYSES; HISTORICAL; SYSTEMATICAL; III. PHILOSOPHICAL HORIZONS

[T]his collection is rich in both historical detail and philosophical ideas, living up to Sieg's exhortations for philosophy of mathematics to integrate conceptual, technical, and historical aspects into its perspective.