Thinking about mathematics : the philosophy of mathematics / Stewart Shapiro.
By: Shapiro, Stewart
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Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2000Description: xiii, 308 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780192893062 (pbk.).Subject(s): Mathematics -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 510.1 | Item type | Current location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Remark |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 290-302) and index.
1. What is so interesting about mathematics (for a philosopher)? - 2. A potpourri of questions and attempted answers - 3. Plato's rationalism, and aristotle - 4. Near opposites: Kant and Mill - 5. Logicism: Is mathamatics (Just) Logic? - 6. Formalism: Do mathematical statements mean anything? - 7. Intuitionism: Is something wrong with our logic? - 8. Numbers exist - 9. No they don't - 10. Structuralism.
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