Mathematical objects and mathematical knowledge
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Mathematical objects and mathematical knowledge
(The international research library of philosophy, 13 . The Philosophy of mathematics and science)
Dartmouth, c1995
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Note
Collected essays from English-language journals
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
An overview that attempts to answer some of the key questions in the contemporary philosophy of mathematics. It includes coverage of recent debates between mathematical realists and anti-realists.
Table of Contents
Part 1 Field's response. Part 2 Another anti-realist response - mathematics is really talk about possibilities involving concrete objects. Part 3 Maddy's realism - mathematical objects are like ordinary concrete objects and known by similar means. Part 4 Other approaches to realism. Part 5 Second-order logic - a new tool for logicists and other mathematical reductionists? Part 6 Structuralism - mathematics studies structures.
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