Mathematical Structuralism

Mathematical Structuralism

by Geoffrey Hellman and Stewart Shapiro
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Publication Date: 04/01/2019

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The present work is a systematic study of five frameworks or perspectives articulating mathematical structuralism, whose core idea is that mathematics is concerned primarily with interrelations in abstraction from the nature of objects. The first two, set-theoretic and category-theoretic, arose within mathematics itself. After exposing a number of problems, the Element considers three further perspectives formulated by logicians and philosophers of mathematics: sui generis, treating structures as abstract universals, modal, eliminating structures as objects in favor of freely entertained logical possibilities, and finally, modal-set-theoretic, a sort of synthesis of the set-theoretic and modal perspectives.

ISBN:
9781108630740
9781108630740
Category:
Philosophy of science
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
04-01-2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press

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