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, arose with...

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Beteilige Person: Hellman, Geoffrey
Weitere beteiligte Personen: Shapiro, Stewart 1951-
Format: E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2019
Schriftenreihe:Elements in the philosophy of mathematics
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108582933
Zusammenfassung: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.
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (92 Seiten)
ISBN:9781108582933
ISSN:2399-2883