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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37588507 Title: The Philosophy of mathematics today Author: Matthias Schirn Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press, 1998. ISBN/ISSN: 0198236549 9780198236542 OCLC:37588507

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The Philosophy of mathematics today

Author:	Matthias Schirn
Publisher:	Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press, 1998.
Edition/Format:	Book : Conference publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	Representing the state of the art in the field of the philosophy of mathematics, this collection of 20 essays deals with fundamental issues, ranging from the nature of mathematical knowledge to sets and natural 'number'.
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Genre/Form:	Congresses Congrès
Material Type:	Conference publication, Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	Matthias Schirn Find more information about:
ISBN:	0198236549 9780198236542
OCLC Number:	37588507
Notes:	Papers from a conference held in Munich from June 28 to July 4, 1993.
Description:	xii, 638 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents:	1. What mathematical truth could not be, I / Paul Benacerraf -- 2. Is Platonism epistemologically bankrupt? / Bob Hale -- 3. Do we have a determinate conception of finiteness and natural number? / Hartry Field -- 4. Logical consequence : models and modality / Stewart Shapiro -- 5. Tarski's thesis and the ontology of mathematics / Charles Chihara -- 6. Naturalizing mathematical methodology / Penelope Maddy -- 7. Occam's razor and scientific method / John P. Burgess -- 8. Beyond definitionism, but not too far beyond / Geoffrey Hellman -- 9. Holistic mathematics / Michael D. Resnik -- 10. Finitism and intuitive knowledge / Charles Parsons -- 11. Hilbert's finitism and the notion of infinity / Karl-Georg Niebergall and Matthias Schirn -- 12. Constructive existence claims / Michael Detlefsen -- 13. On the harmless impredicativity of N(superscript =) ('Hume's Principle') / Crispin Wright -- 14. Neo-Fregeans : in bad company? / Michael Dummett -- 15. Response to Dummett / Crispin Wright -- 16. Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik, [actual symbol not reproducible] 82-3 / George Boolos and Richard G. Heck, Jr. -- 17. The finite and the infinite in Frege's Grundgesetze der Arithmetik / Richard G. Heck, Jr. -- 18. Zermelo's conception of set theory and reflection principles / W.W. Tait. -- 19. Structure and abstraction / Peter Simons -- 20. The limits of abstraction / Kit Fine.
Responsibility:	edited by Matthias Schirn.
More information:	Publisher description Table of contents only

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Representing the state of the art in the field of the philosophy of mathematics, this collection of 20 essays deals with fundamental issues, ranging from the nature of mathematical knowledge to sets and natural 'number'.

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