Objects, Structures, and Logics FilMat Studies in the Philosophy of Mathematics

This edited collection casts light on central issues within contemporary philosophy of mathematics such as the realism/anti-realism dispute; the relationship between logic and metaphysics; and the question of whether mathematics is a science of objects or structures. The discussions offered in the p...

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Other Authors: Oliveri, Gianluigi (Editor), Ternullo, Claudio (Editor), Boscolo, Stefano (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
Series:Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • Part 1. Mathematical Objects
  • 2. Aristotle's Problem (Zanetti, L)
  • 3.Hofweber's Nominalist Naturalism (Snyder, E., Samuels, R., Shapiro, S)
  • 4. Exploring Mathematical Objects from Custom-Tailored Mathematical Universes (Blechschmidt, I.)
  • 5. Rescuing Implicit Definition from Abstractionism (Waxman, D.)
  • Part 2. Structures and Structuralisms
  • 6. Structural Relativity and Informal Rigour (Barton, N.)
  • 7. Ontological Dependence and Grounding for a Weak Mathematical Structuralism (Bianchi, S.)
  • 8. The Structuralist Mathematical Style: Bourbaki as a Case Study (Marquis, J.-P.)
  • 9. Grothendieck Toposes as Unifying Bridges: a Mathematical Morphogenesis (Caramello, O.)
  • Part 3. Logics and Proofs
  • 10. Game of Grounds (Catta, D., Piccolomini D'Aragona, A.)
  • 11. Predicativity and Constructive Mathematics (Crosilla, L.)
  • 12. Truth and the Philosophy of Mathematics (Cantini, A.)
  • 13. On Lakatos's Decomposition of the Notion of Proof (Moriconi, E.)
  • 14. A CategoricalReading of the Numerical Existence Property in Constructive Foundations (Maschio, S.)