Shapiro, Stewart (ed.) - The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic

From the beginning, Western philosophy has had a fascination with mathematics. The entrance to Plato's Academy is said to have been marked with the words "Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here." Some major historical mathematicians, such as René Descartes, Gottfried Leibniz, and Blaise Pascal, were also major philosophers. In more recent times, there are Bernard Bolzano, Alfred North Whitehead, David Hilbert, Gottlob Frege, Alonzo Church, Kurt Gödel, and Alfred Tarski. Until very recently, just about every philosopher was aware of the state of mathematics and took it seriously for philosophical attention.