[FOM] philosophical literature on intuitionism

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Lainaus "Thomas Forster" <T.Forster at dpmms.cam.ac.uk>:

>
> I'm curious to know what the people who dreamt this stuff up actually
> thought they were doing.
>
> Where is the best place to start?

You might start with Mark van Atten's entry on Brouwer in SEP:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/brouwer/

and his another entry:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/intuitionistic-logic-development/

Mark's little book on Brouwer is also very good.

Dummett's position is very different from the standard intuitionism  
(if there is such...). The principal source is his 1975 paper ‘The  
Philosophical Basis for Intuitionistic Logic’. Prawitz's paper  
‘Dummett on a theory of meaning and its impact on logic’ is also  
helpful.

Especially for some issues with Dummett and Prawitz, see also my  
"Conceptions of truth in intuitionism":
http://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/praatika/conceptions%20of%20truth%20in%20intuitionism.pdf


All the Best, Panu



Panu Raatikainen

Ph.D., Academy Research Fellow,
Docent in Theoretical Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
University of Helsinki
Finland

E-mail: panu.raatikainen at helsinki.fi

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