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Platonism and Anti-Platonism in Mathematics
Language: en
Pages: 234
Authors: Mark Balaguer
Categories: Mathematics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher:

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In this book, Balaguer demonstrates that there are no good arguments for or against mathematical platonism. He does this by establishing that both platonism and
Platonism and Anti-Platonism in Mathematics
Language: en
Pages: 228
Authors: Mark Balaguer
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-08-20 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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In this highly absorbing work, Balaguer demonstrates that no good arguments exist either for or against mathematical platonism-for example, the view that abstra
Platonism and Anti-Platonism in Mathematics
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Mark Balaguer
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-08-20 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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In this highly absorbing work, Balaguer demonstrates that no good arguments exist either for or against mathematical platonism-for example, the view that abstra
Platonism and the Objects of Science
Language: en
Pages: 193
Authors: Scott Berman
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-02-20 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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What are the objects of science? Are they just the things in our scientific experiments that are located in space and time? Or does science also require that th
What Is Mathematics, Really?
Language: en
Pages: 369
Authors: Reuben Hersh
Categories: Mathematics
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-08-21 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Most philosophers of mathematics treat it as isolated, timeless, ahistorical, inhuman. Reuben Hersh argues the contrary, that mathematics must be understood as