Realistic Rationalism

by Jerrold J. Katz

Book Overview

In Realistic Rationalism , Jerrold J. Katz develops a new philosophical position integrating realism and rationalism. Realism here means that the objects of study in mathematics and other formal sciences are abstract; rationalism means that our knowledge of them is not empirical. Katz uses this position to meet the principal challenges to realism. In exposing the flaws in criticisms of the antirealists, he shows that realists can explain knowledge...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262611511
• ISBN13: 9780262611510
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher