Philosophy of mathematics
By: edited by Andrew D. Irvine
Contributors: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Handbook of the philosophy of science
Publisher: North Holland
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Burlington, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 717
ISBN-13: 9780080930589; 9780444515551
Subjects: Mathematics; Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Preface  -- Andrew D. Irvine; title: Les liaisons dangereuses  -- W. D. Hart; title: Realism and a nit-realism in mathematics  -- Mark Balaguer; title: Aristotelian realism  -- James Franklin; title: Empiricism in the philosophy of mathematics  -- David Bostock; title: A Kantian perspective on the philosophy of mathematics  -- Mary Tiles; title: Logicism  -- Jaakko Hintikka; title: Formalism  -- Peter Simons; title: Constructivism in mathematics  -- Charles McCarty; title: Fictionalism  -- Daniel Bonevac; title: Set theory from Cantor to Cohen  -- Akihiro Kanamori; title: Alternative set theories  -- Peter Apostoli, et. al.; title: Philosophies of probability  -- Jon Williamson; title: On computability  -- Wilfried Sieg; title: Inconsistent mathematics  -- Chris Mortensen; title: Mathematics and the world -- Mark Colyvan.