Mathematical structuralism:
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Beteiligte Personen: Hellman, Geoffrey 1943- (VerfasserIn), Shapiro, Stewart 1951- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Kein sprachlicher Inhalt
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2019
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge elements
Elements in the philosophy of mathematics
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108582933
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108582933
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108582933
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108582933
Abstract: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, the book considers 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
Beschreibung:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Dec 2018)
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (92 pages)
ISBN:9781108582933
1108582931
9781108456432
DOI:10.1017/9781108582933