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A Realist Philosophy of Mathematics

A Realist Philosophy of Mathematics

Paperback

Series: Texts in Philosophy

General Mathematics

ISBN10: 1904987400
ISBN13: 9781904987406
Publisher: Kings College Pubn
Published: Mar 5 2007
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The realism/anti-realism debate is one of the traditional central themes in the philosophy of mathematics. The controversies about the existence of the irrational numbers, the complex numbers, the infintesimals, etc. will be familiar to all who are acquainted with the history of mathematics. This book aims mainly at presenting and defending a non-Platonist form of mathematical structural realism which, in the respect of the history of mathematics, harmonizes with a plausible epistemology that naturally arises from it. Gianluigi Oliveri's book embodies a masterly survey of salient questions in the philosophy of mathematics, and propounds a challenging, if controversial, theory of the subject. Michael Dummett

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