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The nature of mathematical knowledge / Philip Kitcher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kitcher, Philip, 1947- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mathematics--Philosophy.
- Mathematics.
- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 287 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1985.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This text develops and defends an empiricist approach to mathematical knowledge. After offering an account of a priori knowledge, it argues that none of the available accounts of a priori mathematical knowledge is viable.
- Contents:
- ""Introduction""; ""1 Epistemological Preliminaries""; ""2 The Apriorist Program""; ""3 Mathematical Intuition""; ""4 Conceptualism""; ""5 Toward a Defensible Empiricism""; ""6 Mathematical Reality""; ""7 Mathematical Change and Scientific Change""; ""8 Mathematical Changes""; ""9 Patterns of Mathematical Change""; ""10 The Development of Analysis: A Case Study""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-983336-2
- 1-280-52298-4
- 9786610522989
- 0-19-802040-6
- OCLC:
- 191826959
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