Defending the Axioms: On the Philosophical Foundations of Set Theory - Softcover

Maddy, Penelope

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199671486 ISBN 13: 9780199671489

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2013

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'an engaging contribution to an important philosophical debate [which] deserves to be read far beyond the ranks of philosophers of mathematics' (Journal of Philosophy)

Reseña del editor

Mathematics depends on proofs, and proofs must begin somewhere, from some fundamental assumptions. For nearly a century, the axioms of set theory have played this role, so the question of how these axioms are properly judged takes on a central importance. Approaching the question from a broadly naturalistic or second-philosophical point of view, Defending the Axioms isolates the appropriate methods for such evaluations and investigates the ontological and epistemological backdrop that makes them appropriate. In the end, a new account of the objectivity of mathematics emerges, one refreshingly free of metaphysical commitments.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0199671486
• ISBN 13: 9780199671489
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 162