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Realism in Mathematics

Realism in Mathematics

Paperback

Series: Clarendon Paperbacks

FictionLogic

ISBN10: 019824035X
ISBN13: 9780198240358
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: Oct 15 1992
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.47 Depth: 8.47
Language: English
Mathematicians tend to think of themselves as scientists investigating the features of real mathematical things, and the wildly successful application of mathematics in the physical sciences reinforces this picture of mathematics as an objective study. For philosophers, however, this realism about mathematics raises serious questions: What are mathematical things? Where are they? How do we know about them? Offering a scrupulously fair treatment of both mathematical and philosophical concerns, Penelope Maddy here delineates and defends a novel version of mathematical realism. She answers the traditional questions and poses a challenging new one, refocusing philosophical attention on the pressing foundational issues of contemporary mathematics.

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