Mathematics and Necessity: Essays in the History of Philosophy

Volume published 2000

Preface
Timothy Smiley, pages ix-x

Plato on Why Mathematics is Good for the Soul
M F Burnyeat, pages 1-81

What Mathematics Has Done to Some and Only Some Philosophers
Ian Hacking, pages 83-138

Infallibility and Modal Knowledge in Some Early Modern Philosophers
Jonathan Bennett, pages 139-166

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