Mathematical structuralism:

"The present work is a systematic study of five frameworks or perspectives articulating mathematical structuralism, whose core idea is that mathematics is concerned primarily with interrelations in abstraction from the nature of objects. The first two, set-theoretic and category-theoretic, aros...

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Main Authors: Hellman, Geoffrey 1943- (Author), Shapiro, Stewart 1951- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore Cambridge University Press 2019
Series:Cambridge elements. Elements in the philosophy of mathematics
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:"The present work is a systematic study of five frameworks or perspectives articulating mathematical structuralism, whose core idea is that mathematics is concerned primarily with interrelations in abstraction from the nature of objects. The first two, set-theoretic and category-theoretic, arose within mathematics itself. After exposing a number of problems they encounter, Geoffrey Hellman and Steward Shapiro consider three further perspectives formulated by logicians and philosophers of mathematics: sui generis, treating structures as abstract universals; modal, eliminating structures as objects in favor of freely entertained logical possibilities; and finally, modal-set-theoretic, a sort of synthesis of the set-theoretic and modal perspectives"--Back cover
Physical Description:92 Seiten 23 cm
ISBN:9781108456432
110845643X
9781108697286
1108697283

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