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Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 1990

ISBN (Hardback): 9789401073486

Full citation:

Irvine (ed), Physicalism in mathematics, Berlin, Springer, 1990

Physicalism in mathematics

Contents

Epistemology & nominalism

John P. Burgess

1-15

What is abstraction & what is it good for?

Peter Simons

17-40

Beliefs about mathematical objects

Michael D. Resnik

41-71

Field & Fregean Platonism

Crispin Wright

73-93

Π in the sky

James BROWN

95-120

Nominalism

Bob Hale

121-144

The logic of physical theory

Alasdair Urquhart

145-154

Knowledge of mathematical objects

David Papineau

155-182

Physicalism, reductionism & Hilbert

Michael Hallett

183-257

Physicalistic Platonism

Penelope Maddy

259-289

Sets are universals

John Bigelow

291-305

Modal-structural mathematics

Geoffrey Hellman

307-330

Logical & philosophical foundations for arithmetical logic

Yvon Gauthier

331-342

Criticisms of the usual rationale for validity in mathematics

Chandler Davis

343-356