Shapiro, Stewart, 1951-

Thinking about mathematics : the philosophy of mathematics / Stewart Shapiro. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2000. - xiii, 308 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

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.

9780192893062 (pbk.)


Mathematics--Philosophy.

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