Mathematics as a science of patterns /

Resnik expresses his commitment to a structuralist philosophy of mathematics and links this to a defence of realism about the metaphysics of mathematics - the view that mathematics is about things that really exist.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Resnik, Michael D.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Oxford : Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, ©1997.
Subjects:	Mathematics > Philosophy. Mathématiques > Philosophie. MATHEMATICS > History & Philosophy. Mathematics > Philosophy Wiskunde. Realisme (filosofie) Kennistheorie. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. What is Mathematical Realism?
3. The Case for Mathematical Realism
4. Recent Attempts at Blunting the Indispensability Thesis
5. Doubts about Realism
6. The Elusive Distinction between Mathematics and Natural Science
7. Holism: Evidence in Science and Mathematics
8. The Local Conception of Mathematical Evidence: Proof, Computation, and Logic
9. Positing Mathematical Objects
10. Mathematical Objects as Positions in Patterns
11. Patterns and Mathematical Knowledge
12. What is Structuralism? And Other Questions.