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Autore: | Balaguer Mark |
Titolo: | Platonism and anti-Platonism in mathematics / / Mark Balaguer |
Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1998 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (228 p.) |
Disciplina: | 510/.1 |
Soggetto topico: | Mathematics - Philosophy |
Platonists | |
Note generali: | Bibliography: p207-211. _ Includes index. |
Previously issued in print: 1998. | |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; 1 Introduction; 1. The Project of This Book; 2. Mathematical Platonism and Anti-Platonism; 3. Synopsis of the Book; ONE: Platonism; 2 The Epistemological Argument Against Platonism; 3 A New Platonist Epistemology; 4 Non-Uniqueness Embraced; TWO: Anti-Platonism; 5 The Fregean Argument Against Anti-Platonism; 6 Denying the Existence of Indispensable Applications: Toward a Nominalization of Quantum Mechanics; 7 Accounting for Indispensable Applications from a Fictionalist Point of View; THREE: Conclusions; 8 The Unsolvability of the Problem and a Kinder, Gentler Positivism; Notes |
BibliographyIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Demonstrating that there are no good arguments for or against mathematical Platonism, the author establishes that both Platonism and anti-Platonism are defensible views by solving the important problems associated with each of these views. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Platonism and anti-Platonism in mathematics |
ISBN: | 0-19-028405-6 |
0-19-773133-3 | |
1-280-47083-6 | |
9786610470839 | |
0-19-535276-9 | |
0-585-24567-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910812998303321 |
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