Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 317 g
Reihe: Clarendon Paperbacks
Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 317 g
Reihe: Clarendon Paperbacks
ISBN: 978-0-19-824035-8
Verlag: OUP Oxford
When engaged in mathematics, most people 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? Penelope Maddy delineates and
defends a novel version of mathematical realism that answers the traditional questions and refocuses philosophical attention on the pressing foundational issues of contemporary mathematics.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
- Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Philosophie der Mathematik
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Zeit: Philosophische, Psychologische, Soziale Aspekte
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Mathematik, Philosophie der Physik
Weitere Infos & Material
Realism: Pre-theoretic realism; Realism in philosophy; Realism and truth; Realism in mathematics; Perception and intuition: What is the question?; Perception; Intuition; Godelian Platonism; Numbers: What numbers could not be; Numbers as properties; Frege numbers; Axioms: Reals and sets of reals; Axiomization; Open problems; Competing theories; The challenge; Monism and beyond: Monism; Field's nominalism; Structuralism; Summary; References; Index.
