Philosophy of mathematics : an introduction
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Philosophy of mathematics : an introduction
Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [310]-324) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Philosophy of Mathematics: An Introduction provides a critical analysis of the major philosophical issues and viewpoints in the concepts and methods of mathematics - from antiquity to the modern era.
Offers beginning readers a critical appraisal of philosophical viewpoints throughout history
Gives a separate chapter to predicativism, which is often (but wrongly) treated as if it were a part of logicism
Provides readers with a non-partisan discussion until the final chapter, which gives the author's personal opinion on where the truth lies
Designed to be accessible to both undergraduates and graduate students, and at the same time to be of interest to professionals
Table of Contents
Introduction. Part I: Plato versus Aristotle:.
A. Plato.
1. The Socratic Background.
2. The Theory of Recollection.
3. Platonism in Mathematics.
4. Retractions: the Divided Line in Republic VI (509d 511e).
B. Aristotle.
5. The Overall Position.
6. Idealizations.
7. Complications.
8. Problems with Infinity.
C. Prospects.
Part II: From Aristotle to Kant:.
1. Medieval Times.
2. Descartes.
3. Locke, Berkeley, Hume.
4. A Remark on Conceptualism.
5. Kant: the Problem.
6. Kant: the Solution.
Part III: Reactions to Kant:.
1. Mill on Geometry.
2. Mill versus Frege on Arithmetic.
3. Analytic Truths.
4. Concluding Remarks.
Part IV: Mathematics and its Foundations:.
1. Geometry.
2. Different Kinds of Number.
3. The Calculus.
4. Return to Foundations.
5. Infinite Numbers.
6. Foundations Again.
Part V: Logicism:.
1. Frege.
2. Russell.
3. Borkowski/Bostock.
4. Set Theory.
5. Logic.
6. Definition.
Part VI: Formalism:.
1. Hilbert.
2. Goedel.
3. Pure Formalism.
4. Structuralism.
5. Some Comments.
Part VII: Intuitionism:.
1. Brouwer.
2. Intuitionist Logic.
3. The Irrelevance of Ontology.
4. The Attack on Classical Logic.
Part VIII: Predicativism:.
1. Russell and the VCP.
2. Russell's Ramified Theory and the Axiom of Reducibility.
3. Predicative Theories after Russell.
4. Concluding Remarks.
Part IX: Realism versus Nominalism:.
A. Realism.
1. Goedel.
2. Neo-Fregeans.
3. Quine and Putnam.
B. Nominalism.
4. Reductive Nominalism.
5. Fictionalism.
6. Concluding Remarks.
References.
Index
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