书名: Mathematical Thought and Its Objects
作者: Charles Parsons (Author)
出版社: Cambridge University Press (December 24, 2007)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0521452791
ISBN-13: 978-0521452793
Book Description
In Mathematical Thought and Its Objects, Charles Parsons examines the notion of object, with the aim to navigate between nominalism, denying that distinctively mathematical objects exist, and forms of Platonism that postulate a transcendent realm of such objects. He introduces the central mathematical notion of structure and defends a version of the structuralist view of mathematical objects, according to which their existence is relative to a structure and they have no more of a "nature" than that confers on them.
About the Author
Charles Parsons is Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus at Harvard University. He is a former editor of the Journal of Philosophy. He is the author of Mathematics in Philosophy and co-editor of the posthumous works of Kurt Gödel.
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作者: Charles Parsons (Author)
出版社: Cambridge University Press (December 24, 2007)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0521452791
ISBN-13: 978-0521452793
Book Description
In Mathematical Thought and Its Objects, Charles Parsons examines the notion of object, with the aim to navigate between nominalism, denying that distinctively mathematical objects exist, and forms of Platonism that postulate a transcendent realm of such objects. He introduces the central mathematical notion of structure and defends a version of the structuralist view of mathematical objects, according to which their existence is relative to a structure and they have no more of a "nature" than that confers on them.
About the Author
Charles Parsons is Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus at Harvard University. He is a former editor of the Journal of Philosophy. He is the author of Mathematics in Philosophy and co-editor of the posthumous works of Kurt Gödel.
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