A Realist Philosophy of Mathematics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781904987406)

The realism/anti-realism debate is one of the traditional central themes in the philosophy of mathematics. The controversies about the existence of the irrational numbers, the complex numbers, the infintesimals, etc. will be familiar to all who are acquainted with the history of mathematics. This book aims mainly at presenting and defending a non-Platonist form of mathematical structural realism which, in the respect of the history of mathematics, harmonizes with a plausible epistemology that naturally arises from it. "Gianluigi Oliveri's book embodies a masterly survey of salient questions in the philosophy of mathematics, and propounds a challenging, if controversial, theory of the subject." Michael Dummett

Author: G. Oliveri
ISBN-10: 1904987400
ISBN-13: 9781904987406
Publisher: College Publications
Language: English
Published: 03/05/2007
Pages: 292
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.61d