Mathematical Knowledge, Objects and Applications

Yemima Ben-Menahem

ISBN 10: 3031216571 / ISBN 13: 9783031216572

Published by Springer International Publishing, Springer International Publishing Mai 2024, 2024

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book provides a survey of a number of the major issues in the philosophy of mathematics, such as ontological questions regarding the nature of mathematical objects, epistemic questions about the acquisition of mathematical knowledge, and the intriguing riddle of the applicability of mathematics to the physical world. Some of these issues go back to the nascent years of mathematics itself, others are just beginning to draw the attention of scholars. In addressing these questions, some of the papers in this volume wrestle with them directly, while others use the writings of philosophers such as Hume and Wittgenstein to approach their problems by way of interpretation and critique. The contributors include prominent philosophers of science and mathematics as well as promising younger scholars. The volume seeks to share the concerns of philosophers of mathematics with a wider audience and will be of interest to historians, mathematicians and philosophers alike. 420 pp. Englisch.

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• Title: Mathematical Knowledge, Objects and Applications
• Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Springer International Publishing Mai 2024
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3031216571
• ISBN 13: 9783031216572
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu

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This book provides a survey of a number of the major issues in the philosophy of mathematics, such as ontological questions regarding the nature of mathematical objects, epistemic questions about the acquisition of mathematical knowledge, and the intriguing riddle of the applicability of mathematics to the physical world. Some of these issues go back to the nascent years of mathematics itself, others are just beginning to draw the attention of scholars. In addressing these questions, some of the papers in this volume wrestle with them directly, while others use the writings of philosophers such as Hume and Wittgenstein to approach their problems by way of interpretation and critique. The contributors include prominent philosophers of science and mathematics as well as promising younger scholars. The volume seeks to share the concerns of philosophers of mathematics with a wider audience and will be of interest to historians, mathematicians and philosophers alike.

About the Author

Carl Posy has published widely in the philosophy of mathematics and in the history of philosophy.   He is the author of Mathematical Intuitionism (Cambridge 2020), and the editor of Kant’s Philosophy of Mathematics: Modern Essays (Kluwer, 1992). He co-edited (with Jack Copeland and Oron Shagrir) Computability: Turing, Gödel, Church and Beyond (MIT, 2013), and (with Ofra Rechter) Kant’s Philosophy of Mathematics, Volume I:  The Critical Philosophy and Its Roots (Cambridge, 2020); and Kant’s Philosophy of Mathematics, Volume II:  Reception and Influence (Cambridge, Forthcoming)

Yemima Ben-Menahem is a philosopher of science, specializing in the philosophy of physics. She is author of Conventionalism (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and Causation in Science (Princeton University Press, 2018. She edited Hilary Putnam (Cambridge University Press 2005) and coedited (with Meir Hemmo) Probability in Physics (Springer, 2012)