Mathematics as a Science of Patterns

ISBN-13: 9780198250142 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 304 str.

Michael D. Resnik

Opis

This book expounds a system of ideas about the nature of mathematics which Michael Resnik has been elaborating for a number of years. In calling mathematics a science he implies that it has a factual subject-matter and that mathematical knowledge is on a par with other scientific knowledge; in calling it a science of patterns he expresses his commitment to a structuralist philosophy of mathematics. He links this to a defense of realism about the metaphysics of mathematics--the view that mathematics is about things that really exist.

Recenzje

With great clarity and thoroughness, Michael D. Resnik, in Mathematics as a Science of Patterns, and Stewart Shapiro, in Philosophy of Mathematics, both articulate versions of an attractive programme for those who take ontology as primary.

O autorze

Michael D. Resnik is University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.