I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION
1. The Promethean Task of Bringing Mathematics to Earth
Sal Restivo
II. PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES
2. Foundations of Mathematics or Mathematical Practice: Is One Forced to Choose?
Jean Paul Van Bendegem
3. A Naturalized Epistemology for a Platonist Mathematical Ontology
Michael D. Resnik
4. Mathematical Skepticism: Are We Brains in a Countable Vat?
Thomas Tymoczko
5. Philosophical Problems of Mathematics in the Light of Evolutionary Epistemology
Yehuda Rav
III. MATHEMATICS, POLITICS, AND PEDAGOGY
6. Mathematics as a Means and as a System
Roland Fischer
7. Reflections on the Foundations of Research on Women and Mathematics
Helga Jungwirth
8. Politicizing the Mathematics Classroom
Nel Noddings
9. The Dialogical Nature of Reflective Knowledge
Ole Skovsmose
10. Applied Mathematics as Social Contract
Philip J. Davis
IV. MATHEMATICS, SOCIETY, AND SOCIAL CHANGE
11. Mathematics and Social Change
Roland Fischer
12. The Social System of Mathematics and National Socialism: A Survey
Herbert Mehrtens
13. The Social Life of Mathematics
Sal Restivo
Contributors
Subject Index
Name Index