Stewart Shapiro (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy,
Thinking about Mathematics
The Philosophy of Mathematics
Stewart Shapiro (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy,
Thinking about Mathematics
The Philosophy of Mathematics
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'Thinking about Mathematics' covers the range of philosophical issues and positions concerning mathematics. The text describes the questions about mathematics that motivated philosophers throughout history and covers historical figures such as Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Mill.
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'Thinking about Mathematics' covers the range of philosophical issues and positions concerning mathematics. The text describes the questions about mathematics that motivated philosophers throughout history and covers historical figures such as Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Mill.
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Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Seitenzahl: 328
- Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2000
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 216mm x 138mm x 25mm
- Gewicht: 412g
- ISBN-13: 9780192893062
- ISBN-10: 0192893068
- Artikelnr.: 21645317
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Seitenzahl: 328
- Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2000
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 216mm x 138mm x 25mm
- Gewicht: 412g
- ISBN-13: 9780192893062
- ISBN-10: 0192893068
- Artikelnr.: 21645317
Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Ohio State University at Newark and Professorial Fellow, Department of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.
Part I. Perspective
Chapter 1. What is so interesting about mathematics (for philosopher)?
Attraction - of opposites?
Philosophy and mathematics: chicken or egg?
Naturalism and mathematics
Chapter 2. A Potpourri of questions and attempted answers
Necessity and a priori knowledge
Global matters: objects and objectivity
The mathematical and the physical
Local maters: theorems, theories, and concepts
Part II. History
Chapter 3. Plato's Rationalism, and Aristotle
The world of Being
Plato on mathematics
Mathematics on Plato
Aristotle, the worthy opponent
Further reading
Chapter 4. Near opposites: Kant and Mill
Reorientation
Kant
Mill
Further reading
Part III. The big three
Chapter 5. Logicism: Is mathematics (just) logic?
Frege
Russell
Carnap and logical positivism
Contemporary views
Further reading
Chapter 6. Formalism: Do mathematical statements mean anything?
Basic views: Freg's onslaught
Deductivism: Hilbert's Grundlagen der Geometrie
Finitism: the Hilbert program
Incompleteness
Curry
Further reading
Chapter 7. Intuitionism: is something wrong with our logic?
1. Revising classical logic
2. The teacher, Brouwer
3. The student, Heyting
4. Dummett
5. Further reading
Part IV. The contemporary scene
Chapter 8. Numbers exist
Gödel
The web of belief
Set-theoretic realism
Further reading
Chapter 9. No they don't
Fictionalism
Modal construction
What should we make of all this?
Addendum: Young Turks
Further reading
Chapter 10. Structuralism
The underlying idea
Ante rem structures, and objects
Structuralism without structures
Knowledge of structures
Further reading
References
Index
Chapter 1. What is so interesting about mathematics (for philosopher)?
Attraction - of opposites?
Philosophy and mathematics: chicken or egg?
Naturalism and mathematics
Chapter 2. A Potpourri of questions and attempted answers
Necessity and a priori knowledge
Global matters: objects and objectivity
The mathematical and the physical
Local maters: theorems, theories, and concepts
Part II. History
Chapter 3. Plato's Rationalism, and Aristotle
The world of Being
Plato on mathematics
Mathematics on Plato
Aristotle, the worthy opponent
Further reading
Chapter 4. Near opposites: Kant and Mill
Reorientation
Kant
Mill
Further reading
Part III. The big three
Chapter 5. Logicism: Is mathematics (just) logic?
Frege
Russell
Carnap and logical positivism
Contemporary views
Further reading
Chapter 6. Formalism: Do mathematical statements mean anything?
Basic views: Freg's onslaught
Deductivism: Hilbert's Grundlagen der Geometrie
Finitism: the Hilbert program
Incompleteness
Curry
Further reading
Chapter 7. Intuitionism: is something wrong with our logic?
1. Revising classical logic
2. The teacher, Brouwer
3. The student, Heyting
4. Dummett
5. Further reading
Part IV. The contemporary scene
Chapter 8. Numbers exist
Gödel
The web of belief
Set-theoretic realism
Further reading
Chapter 9. No they don't
Fictionalism
Modal construction
What should we make of all this?
Addendum: Young Turks
Further reading
Chapter 10. Structuralism
The underlying idea
Ante rem structures, and objects
Structuralism without structures
Knowledge of structures
Further reading
References
Index
Part I. Perspective
Chapter 1. What is so interesting about mathematics (for philosopher)?
Attraction - of opposites?
Philosophy and mathematics: chicken or egg?
Naturalism and mathematics
Chapter 2. A Potpourri of questions and attempted answers
Necessity and a priori knowledge
Global matters: objects and objectivity
The mathematical and the physical
Local maters: theorems, theories, and concepts
Part II. History
Chapter 3. Plato's Rationalism, and Aristotle
The world of Being
Plato on mathematics
Mathematics on Plato
Aristotle, the worthy opponent
Further reading
Chapter 4. Near opposites: Kant and Mill
Reorientation
Kant
Mill
Further reading
Part III. The big three
Chapter 5. Logicism: Is mathematics (just) logic?
Frege
Russell
Carnap and logical positivism
Contemporary views
Further reading
Chapter 6. Formalism: Do mathematical statements mean anything?
Basic views: Freg's onslaught
Deductivism: Hilbert's Grundlagen der Geometrie
Finitism: the Hilbert program
Incompleteness
Curry
Further reading
Chapter 7. Intuitionism: is something wrong with our logic?
1. Revising classical logic
2. The teacher, Brouwer
3. The student, Heyting
4. Dummett
5. Further reading
Part IV. The contemporary scene
Chapter 8. Numbers exist
Gödel
The web of belief
Set-theoretic realism
Further reading
Chapter 9. No they don't
Fictionalism
Modal construction
What should we make of all this?
Addendum: Young Turks
Further reading
Chapter 10. Structuralism
The underlying idea
Ante rem structures, and objects
Structuralism without structures
Knowledge of structures
Further reading
References
Index
Chapter 1. What is so interesting about mathematics (for philosopher)?
Attraction - of opposites?
Philosophy and mathematics: chicken or egg?
Naturalism and mathematics
Chapter 2. A Potpourri of questions and attempted answers
Necessity and a priori knowledge
Global matters: objects and objectivity
The mathematical and the physical
Local maters: theorems, theories, and concepts
Part II. History
Chapter 3. Plato's Rationalism, and Aristotle
The world of Being
Plato on mathematics
Mathematics on Plato
Aristotle, the worthy opponent
Further reading
Chapter 4. Near opposites: Kant and Mill
Reorientation
Kant
Mill
Further reading
Part III. The big three
Chapter 5. Logicism: Is mathematics (just) logic?
Frege
Russell
Carnap and logical positivism
Contemporary views
Further reading
Chapter 6. Formalism: Do mathematical statements mean anything?
Basic views: Freg's onslaught
Deductivism: Hilbert's Grundlagen der Geometrie
Finitism: the Hilbert program
Incompleteness
Curry
Further reading
Chapter 7. Intuitionism: is something wrong with our logic?
1. Revising classical logic
2. The teacher, Brouwer
3. The student, Heyting
4. Dummett
5. Further reading
Part IV. The contemporary scene
Chapter 8. Numbers exist
Gödel
The web of belief
Set-theoretic realism
Further reading
Chapter 9. No they don't
Fictionalism
Modal construction
What should we make of all this?
Addendum: Young Turks
Further reading
Chapter 10. Structuralism
The underlying idea
Ante rem structures, and objects
Structuralism without structures
Knowledge of structures
Further reading
References
Index