Realism, mathematics, and modality

著者

• Field, Hartry H.

書誌事項

Realism, mathematics, and modality

Hartry Field

Blackwell, 1989

注記

Bibliography: p. [282]-285

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This volume presents the work of a philosopher of mathematics, and combines central papers in that area with an essay on the philosophy of space and time. The overriding concern of most of the essays is with the development of a satisfactory fictionalist account of mathematics. Hartry Field develops and defends an original anti-Platonist philosophy of mathematics which suggests that mathematics need not be true, but instead must be "conservative" and dispensable in applications. In defending its dispensability, Field is led to reassess prevailing views about modality.

目次

• Introductory
• Fictionalism, Epistemology and Modality
• Realism and Anti-Realism about Mathematics
• Is Mathematical Knowledge Just Logical Knowledge?
• On Conservativeness and Incompleteness
• Platonism for Cheap? Crispin Wright on Frege's Context Principle
• Can We Dispense with Space-time?
• Realism, Mathematics and Modality.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA07698809
• ISBN:
  • 0631163034
• LCCN: 88027538
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Oxford, UK ; New York, NY, USA
• ページ数/冊数: viii, 290 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : QA8.6
  • DC19 : 510/.1
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Mathematics -- Philosophy
  • LCSH : Space and time