Mathematical thought and its objects /

Charles Parsons examines the notion of object, with the aim to navigate between nominalism, denying that distinctively mathematical objects exist, and forms of Platonism that postulate a transcendent realm of such objects. He introduces the central mathematical notion of structure and defends a vers...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Parsons, Charles, 1933-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Sujets:
Mathematics > Philosophy.
Object (Philosophy)
Logic.
Mathématiques > Philosophie.
Objet (Philosophie)
MATHEMATICS > History & Philosophy.
Logic
Mathematics > Philosophy
Mathematik
Induktion
Intuition
Objekt > Philosophie
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Objects and logic
  • Structuralism and nominalism
  • Modality and structuralism
  • A problem about sets
  • Intuition
  • Numbers as objects
  • Intuitive arithmetic and its limits
  • Mathematical induction
  • Reason.

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