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A subject with no object : strategies for nominalistic interpretation of mathematics /

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A Subject With No Object is a study of philosophical attempts to interpret mathematics in nominalistic terms, that is to give an account of mathematics in terms of the doctrine that there are no such things as mathematical objects.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burgess, John P., 1948-
Other Authors: Rosen, Gideon A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Subjects:
Mathematics > Philosophy.
Mathématiques > Philosophie.
Mathematics > Philosophy
MATHEMATICS.
Logic.
PHILOSOPHY.
Metaphysics.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Philosophical And Technical Background
  • A Common Framework for Strategies
  • Three Major Strategies
  • A Geometric Strategy
  • A Purely Modal Strategy
  • A Mixed Modal Strategy
  • Further Strategies And A Provisional Assessment
  • Miscellaneous Strategies
  • Strategies in the Literature.