Some central philosophical issues concern the use of mathematics in putatively non-mathematical endeavors. One such endeavor, of course, is philosophy, and the philosophy of mathematics is a key instance of that. The present article provides an idiosyncratic survey of the use of mathematical results to provide support or counter-support to various philosophical programs concerning the foundations of mathematics.
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Shapiro, S. (2012). Life on the ship of neurath: Mathematics in the philosophy of mathematics. In Between Logic and Reality: Modeling Inference, Action and Understanding (pp. 11–27). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2390-0_2
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