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Volume 6 contains a selection of material exhibiting many of Hilbert's philosophical and foundational views on particular theories and the exact sciences in general, drawn from his private notebooks and from lectures for more general audiences held in the 1920s.

Volume 2 focuses on notes for lectures on the foundations of the mathematical sciences held by Hilbert in the period 1894-1917. They document Hilbert's first engagement with 'impossibility' proofs, his early attempts to formulate and address the problem of consistency, first dealt with in his work on geometry in the 1890s, his engagement with foundational problems raised by the work of Cantor and Dedekind, his early investigations into the rel...