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Format: Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 236
Utgivningsdatum: 2007-11-01
Upplaga: illustrated ed
Förlag: OUP Oxford
Medarbetare: Paseau, Alexander / Potter, Michael
Illustratör/Fotograf: Illustrations
Illustrationer: Illustrations
Dimensioner: 240 x 165 x 18 mm
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Antal komponenter: 1
Komponenter: 52:B&W 6.14 x 9.21in or 234 x 156mm (Royal 8vo) Case Laminate on White w/Gloss Lam
ISBN: 9780199228249

Mathematical Knowledge

Name: Mathematical Knowledge
Price: 1231.00 SEK
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Author: Mary Leng
ISBN: 9780199228249

av Mary Leng

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What is the nature of mathematical knowledge? Is it anything like scientific knowledge or is it sui generis? How do we acquire it? Should we believe what mathematicians themselves tell us about it? Are mathematical concepts innate or acquired? Eight new essays offer answers to these and many other questions.

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Mathematics and Reality

Mary Leng

Mary Leng defends a philosophical account of the nature of mathematics which views it as a kind of fiction (albeit an extremely useful fiction). On this view, the claims of our ordinary mathematical theories are more closely analogous to utterance...

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Jeremy Gray, MAA Online This book is a valuable introduction to current thinking in the philosophy of mathematics as it looks for a new direction.

Introduction; 1. What is the problem of mathematical knowledge?; 2. Mathematics, memory, and mental arithmetic; 3. Is there a problem of induction for mathematics?; 4. The cognitive basis of mathematical knowledge; 5. What's there to know? A fictionalist account of mathematical knowledge; 6. Mathematical recreation versus mathematical knowledge; 7. Scientific Platonism; 8. On quantifying into predicate position: Steps towards a new(trialist) perspective