1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910777534203321

Autore

Shapiro Stewart <1951->

Titolo

Philosophy of mathematics [[electronic resource] ] : structure and ontology / / Stewart Shapiro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 1997

ISBN

1-280-45096-7

9786610450961

0-19-802545-9

1-4237-6518-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 279 p.)

Disciplina

510/.1

Soggetti

Mathematics - Philosophy

Mathematics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 1997.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This text argues that both realist and anti-realist accounts of mathematics are problematic. It articulates a structuralist approach, arguing that the subject matter of a mathematical theory is not a fixed domain of numbers.