Mathematical Thought and Its Objects

by Charles Parsons

Book Overview

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'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521119111
• ISBN13: 9780521119115
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"