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I should add as a postscript to my earlier post on the 
roots and legacy of formalism, that a fuller version 
of Michael Friedman's account of Kant and his formalist 
legacy is provided in Friedman's highly regarded book 
_Kant and the Exact Sciences_ Cambridge:  Harvard U. Press, 
1992.  I might also recommend in the general area also 
J. Alberto Coffa's _The Semantic Tradition from Kant to 
Carnap_, as well as Morris Kline's well known _Mathematics: 
The Loss of Certainty_.  For those interested in the what 
is perhaps the most important episode in the revolt against 
the formalist program -- beginning in Plato and stretching 
to Frege -- I couldn't recommend more highly Erich Reck's 
seminal article "Frege's Influence on Wittgenstein:  Reversing 
Metaphysics via the Context Principle", in _Early Analytic 
Philosophy:  Essays in Honor of Leonard Linsky_ La Salle:  Open 
Court, 1996.  Books by Shanker, Monk, and Hacker (just out) 
on Wittgenstein's up-ending of the formalist project in logic, 
language, and mathematics, are also highly recommended.  In 
the philosophy of science, I might recommend Walter Weimer, _Notes 
on the Methodology of Scientific Research_ and Frederick Suppe, 
_The Structure of Scientific Theories_. 
 
I'd welcome recommended additions from those with further 
thoughts on helpful books and articles on the history of the 
formalist project in logic, math, epistemology, and the social 
sciences. 
 
 
Greg Ransom 
Dept. of Philosophy 
UC-Riverside 
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