Mathematical Thought and Its Objects (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521452793)

In Mathematical Thought and Its Objects, Charles Parsons examines the notion of object, with the aim to navigate between nominalism, denying that distinctively mathematical objects exist, and forms of Platonism that postulate a transcendent realm of such objects. He introduces the central mathematical notion of structure and defends a version of the structuralist view of mathematical objects, according to which their existence is relative to a structure and they have no more of a "nature" than that confers on them.

Author: Charles Parsons
ISBN-10: 0521452791
ISBN-13: 9780521452793
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/24/2007
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.20d