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When engaged in mathematics, most people tend to think of themselves as scientists investigating the features of real mathematical things, and the wildly successful application of mathematics in the physical sciences reinforces this picture of mathematics as an objective study. For philosophers, however, this realism about mathematics raises serious questions: What are mathematical things? Where are they? How do we know about them? Penelope Maddy delineates and defends a novel version of mathematical realism that answers the traditional questions and refocuses philosophical attention on the pressing foundational issues of contemporary mathematics.
Realism: Pre-theoretic realism; Realism in philosophy; Realism and truth; Realism in mathematics; Perception and intuition: What is the question?; Perception; Intuition; Godelian Platonism; Numbers: What numbers could not be; Numbers as properties; Frege numbers; Axioms: Reals and sets of reals; Axiomization; Open problems; Competing theories; The challenge; Monism and beyond: Monism; Field's nominalism; Structuralism; Summary; References; Index.
She has ... clearly marked out an original and interesting position.
Penelope Maddy, Irvine) Maddy, Penelope (Distinguished Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science, Distinguished Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of California
Penelope Maddy, Irvine) Maddy, Penelope (Distinguished Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science, Distinguished Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of California
Brian Vickers, Zurich; founding President of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric) Vickers, Brian (Professor of English and Renaissance Literature, Professor of English and Renaissance Literature, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
H. C. G. Matthew, Oxford) Matthew, H. C. G. (late Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford, and Fellow, late Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford, and Fellow, St Hugh's College
J. L. Austin, University of Oxford) Austin, J. L. (late White's Professor of Moral Philosophy, late White's Professor of Moral Philosophy, J. I. Austin, J. O. Urmson, G. J. Warnock, Geoffrey J. Warnock, James O. Urmson
Ellen T. Harris, University of Chicago) Harris, Ellen T. (Chairman of the Music Department and Professor of Music, Chairman of the Music Department and Professor of Music
Penelope Maddy, Irvine) Maddy, Penelope (Distinguished Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science, Distinguished Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of California
Françoise Delon, Ulrich Kohlenbach, Penelope Maddy, Frank Stephan, Françoise Delon, Francoise Delon, Germany) Kohlenbach, Ulrich (Technische Universitat, Darmstadt, Irvine) Maddy, Penelope (University of California, Frank (National University of Singapore) Stephan
Penelope Maddy, Irvine) Maddy, Penelope (Distinguished Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science, Distinguished Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of California
Penelope Maddy, Jouko Väänänen, Jouko Väänänen, Irvine) Maddy, Penelope (University of California, Jouko (University of Hesinki) Vaananen