Realism in Mathematics

by Penelope Maddy

Book Overview

Mathematicians 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? Offering a scrupulously fair treatment of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019824035X
• ISBN13: 9780198240358
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"