Mathematical Thought and its Objects
Inbunden, Engelska, 2007
Av Charles Parsons, Massachusetts) Parsons, Charles (Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Harvard University
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Charles Parsons examines the notion of object, with the aim to navigate between nominalism, denying that distinctively mathematical objects exist, and forms of Platonism that postulate a transcendent realm of such objects. He introduces the central mathematical notion of structure and defends a version of the structuralist view of mathematical objects, according to which their existence is relative to a structure and they have no more of a 'nature' than that confers on them. Parsons also analyzes the concept of intuition and presents a conception of it distantly inspired by that of Kant, which describes a basic kind of access to abstract objects and an element of a first conception of the infinite.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2007-12-24
- Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
- Vikt760 g
- SpråkEngelska
- Antal sidor400
- FörlagCambridge University Press
- EAN9780521452793