Defending the Axioms - Penelope Maddy

Defending the Axioms
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Autor: Penelope Maddy

 Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199671489
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Oprawa: miękka
Stron: 162
Data wydania: 2013-03-01
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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.
Reviewed in Mathematical Reviews


Książka "Defending the Axioms"
Penelope Maddy