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Realism in Mathematics: Clarendon Paperbacks

Autor Penelope Maddy
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 sep 1992
When engaged in mathematics, most people tend to think of themselves as scientists investigating the features of real mathematical things, and the wildly successful application of mathematics in the physical sciences reinforces this picture of mathematics as an objective study. For philosophers, however, this realism about mathematics raises serious questions: What are mathematical things? Where are they? How do we know about them? Penelope Maddy delineates and defends a novel version of mathematical realism that answers the traditional questions and refocuses philosophical attention on the pressing foundational issues of contemporary mathematics.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198240358
ISBN-10: 019824035X
Pagini: 216
Ilustrații: 1 line figure
Dimensiuni: 139 x 217 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Clarendon Paperbacks

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Realism: Pre-theoretic realism; Realism in philosophy; Realism and truth; Realism in mathematics; Perception and intuition: What is the question?; Perception; Intuition; Godelian Platonism; Numbers: What numbers could not be; Numbers as properties; Frege numbers; Axioms: Reals and sets of reals; Axiomization; Open problems; Competing theories; The challenge; Monism and beyond: Monism; Field's nominalism; Structuralism; Summary; References; Index.

Recenzii

She has ... clearly marked out an original and interesting position.
the book is written in a lively, engaging style. We hope that it serves to stimulate others to think seriously about issues in philosophy of mathematics because, as Maddy claims, these issues bear directly on mainstream philosophy.