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9780198244523
Realism in Mathematics
by Maddy, Penelope
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- ISBN-13: 9780198244523
- ISBN: 0198244525
- Publication Date: 1990
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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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.Maddy, Penelope is the author of 'Realism in Mathematics', published 1990 under ISBN 9780198244523 and ISBN 0198244525.
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