LEADER 04913nam 2200637 450 001 9910797395203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-7391-7313-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000000435538 035 $a(EBL)2076357 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001515114 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12629641 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001515114 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11481225 035 $a(PQKB)11273945 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2076357 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2076357 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11068771 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL803045 035 $a(OCoLC)911912367 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000435538 100 $a20150710h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAutonomy Platonism and the indispensability argument /$fRussell Marcus 210 1$aLanham, Maryland :$cLexington Books,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (259 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7391-7312-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; Printed in the United States of America; Preface; Chapter 1 - Platonism Overview; Chapter One Platonism: An Overview; Benacerraf's Dilemma; Anti-Platonistic Responses to Benacerraf's Dilemma; Access Problem; Platonistic Responses to Benacerraf's Dilemma: Indispensability Platonism; Platonistic Responses to Benacerraf's Dilemma: Autonomy Platonism; Chapter Two The Quinean Indispensability Argument; Quine's Argument; Quine's Naturalism; Quine's Holism 327 $aPhysicalism and PluralismBelieving Our Best Theory and the Double-Talk Argument; Quine's Procedure for Determining the Commitments of a Theory; Mathematization; Confirmation Holism and Disciplinary Boundaries; Problems for the Quinean Method for Determining Ontological Commitment; Names and Quantifiers; First-Order Logic and Higher-Order Logics; The Regimentation of Commitment; Whither QI?; Chapter 4 - The Weasel; Chapter Four The Weasel; The Original Weasel; Melia's Weaseling Strategy; Leng's Recreational Weasel; The Weasel at Work; Speaking Seriously in Mathematics 327 $aQuine against the Weasel Autonomy Platonism and the Weasel; Traditional Platonism ; The Indispensabilist's Mathematics; Restriction; Ontic Blur and Causality; Modal Uniformity and Temporality; The Indispensabilist's Methods; The Unfortunate Consequences; Other Quinean Indispensability Arguments; Embracing the Unfortunate Consequences ; The Way Forward; Putnam and the Quinean Argument; Putnam's Success Argument; Melia's Two Indispensability Arguments; Resnik's Pragmatic Argument; Other Non-Holistic Indispensability Arguments; Indispensability, Theories, and Explanations 327 $aThe Explanatory Indispensability Argument The Origins of the Explanatory Argument; Mathematical Explanations in Science; Two Concepts of Explanation; Epistemic Explanation and the Explanatory Indispensability Argument; Weaseling Away the Explanatory Argument (But Not the Standard Argument); Toward an Autonomy Platonist Solution; From Indispensability to Autonomy Platonism; From Fictionalism to Autonomy Platonism; Mathematics as Logic; Chapter 9 - Plenitudinous Platonism; Chapter Nine Plenitudinous Platonism; Two Versions of Autonomy Platonism ; Plenitudinous Platonism 327 $aFBP and PlenitudeFBP and Necessity; Chapter 10 - Intuition-Based Autonomy Platonism; Chapter Ten Intuition-Based Autonomy Platonism; McEvoy's Sketch; Mathematical Intuition; A Fallibilist Account of Mathematical Intuition; Mathematical Intuition and Philosophical Intuition; Unhelpful Characterizations of Mathematical Intuition; Mathematical Intuition and Mysterianism; The Unsurprising Reliability of Mathematical Intuition; From Mathematical Intuition to Mathematical Theory; On What Mathematical Objects There Are; The Yield of Intuition-Based Autonomy Platonism 327 $aSecurity and Fallibility 330 $aThis book includes detailed critical analysis of a wide variety of versions of the indispensability argument, as well as a novel approach to traditional views about mathematics. 606 $aLogic, Symbolic and mathematical 606 $aMathematics$xPhilosophy 606 $aPlatonists 615 0$aLogic, Symbolic and mathematical. 615 0$aMathematics$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aPlatonists. 676 $a160 700 $aMarcus$b Russell$f1966-$01493307 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797395203321 996 $aAutonomy Platonism and the indispensability argument$93716221 997 $aUNINA