The Nature of Mathematical Knowledge

✍ Philip Kitcher 📂 Library 📅 1985 🌐 English

This book argues against the view that mathematical knowledge is a priori, contending that mathematics is an empirical science and develops historically, just as natural sciences do. Kitcher presents a complete, systematic, and richly detailed account of the nature of mathematical knowledge and it

📁 The Nature of Mathematical Knowledge

✍ Philip Kitcher 📂 Library 📅 1985 🌐 English

This book argues against the view that mathematical knowledge is a priori, contending that mathematics is an empirical science and develops historically, just as natural sciences do. Kitcher presents a complete, systematic, and richly detailed account of the nature of mathematical knowledge and it

The nature of mathematical knowledge

📁 The nature of mathematical knowledge

✍ Kitcher P. 📂 Library 📅 1984 🏛 OUP 🌐 English

This book argues against the view that mathematical knowledge is a priori, contending that mathematics is an empirical science and develops historically, just as natural sciences do. Kitcher presents a complete, systematic, and richly detailed account of the nature of mathematical knowledge and it

The nature of mathematical knowledge

📁 The nature of mathematical knowledge

✍ Philip Kitcher 📂 Library 📅 1983 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

This book argues against the view that mathematical knowledge is a priori, contending that mathematics is an empirical science and develops historically, just as natural sciences do. Kitcher presents a complete, systematic, and richly detailed account of the nature of mathematical knowledge and its

Structures and Algorithms: Mathematics a

📁 Structures and Algorithms: Mathematics and the Nature of Knowledge

✍ Jens Erik Fenstad 📂 Library 📅 2018 🏛 Springer 🌐 English

<p>This book explains exactly what human knowledge is. The key concepts in this book are structures and algorithms, i.e., what the readers “see” and how they make use of what they see. Thus in comparison with some other books on the philosophy (or methodology) of science, which employ a syntactic ap

Platonism, Naturalism, and Mathematical

📁 Platonism, Naturalism, and Mathematical Knowledge

✍ James Robert Brown 📂 Library 📅 2011 🏛 Routledge 🌐 English

<P>This study addresses a central theme in current philosophy: Platonism vs Naturalism and provides accounts of both approaches to mathematics, crucially discussing Quine, Maddy, Kitcher, Lakoff, Colyvan, and many others. Beginning with accounts of both approaches, Brown defends Platonism by arguing