Philosophy of mathematics today / edited by Matthias Schirn
1998, 1st edition. Oxford: Clarendon. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #313811
ISBN: 0198236549
Physical description: xii, 638 p.: ill.; 24 cm. Notes: Most of the papers derive from the conference "Philosophy of mathematics today", held in Munich, 28 June - July 1993, supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Mind Association. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Introduction 1 -- Part I. Ontology, models, and indeterminacy -- What mathematical truth could not be: I / Paul Benacerraf 33 -- Is Platonism epistemologically bankrupt? / Bob Hale 77 -- Do we have a determinate conception of finiteness and natural number? / Hartry Field 99 -- Logical consequence: models and modality / Stewart Shapiro 131 -- Tarski's thesis and the ontology of mathematics / Charles Chihara 157 -- Part II. Mathematics, science, and method -- Naturalizing mathematical methodology / Penelope Maddy 175 -- Occam's razor and scientific method / John P. Burgess 195 -- Beyond definitionism-- but not too far beyond / Geoffrey Hellman 215 -- Holistic mathematics / Michael D. Resnik 227 -- Part III. Finitism and intuitionism -- Finitism and intuitive knowledge / Charles Parsons 249 -- Hilbert's finitism and the notion of infinity / Karl-Georg Niebergall and Matthias Schirn 271 -- Constructive existence claims / Michael Detlefsen 307 -- Part IV. Frege and the foundations of arithmetic -- On the harmless impredicativity of N= ("Hume's principle") / Crispin Wright 339 -- Neo-Fregeans: in bad company? / Michael Dummett 369 -- Response to Dummett / Crispin Wright 389 -- Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik, 82-3 / George Boolos and Richard G. Heck, Jnr. 407 -- The finite and the infinite in Frege's Grundgesetze der Arithmetik / Richard G. Heck, Jnr. 429 -- Part V. Sets, structure, and abstraction -- Zermelo's conception of set theory and reflection principles / W.W. Tait 469 -- Structure and abstraction / Peter Simons 485 -- The limits of abstraction / Kit Fine 503. Subject: Mathematics Philosophy; Congresses. Mathematics Philosophy History 20th century Congresses. Mathematics Philosophy. Genre: Bibliography. Illustrated.
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