Understanding programming languages

Minds and Machines 17 (2):203-216 (2007)
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We document the influence on programming language semantics of the Platonism/formalism divide in the philosophy of mathematics.

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10.1007/s11023-007-9062-6

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Philosophical Investigations.Ludwig Wittgenstein - 1953 - New York, NY, USA: Wiley-Blackwell. Edited by G. E. M. Anscombe.
Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics.Ludwig Wittgenstein - 1956 - Oxford: Macmillan. Edited by G. E. M. Anscombe, Rush Rhees & G. H. von Wright.
Realism in mathematics.Penelope Maddy - 1990 - New York: Oxford University Prress.
Philosophy of Mathematics: Structure and Ontology.Stewart Shapiro - 1997 - Oxford, England: Oxford University Press USA.
Naturalism in mathematics.Penelope Maddy - 1997 - New York: Oxford University Press.

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