Mary Leng

Gebundenes Buch

Mathematics and Reality

Beschreibung

Mary Leng defends a philosophical account of the nature of mathematics which views it as a kind of fiction (albeit an extremely useful fiction). On this view, the claims of our ordinary mathematical theories are more closely analogous to utterances made in the context of storytelling than to utterances whose aim is to assert literal truths.

Autor

Mary Leng is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of York. She previously held a research fellowship at St John's College, Cambridge (2002-2006), and visiting fellowships at the University of California at Irvine (2001)and the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Study at the University of British Columbia (2003). Her primary research interests are in the Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic, and the Philosophy of Science. She is the co-editor (with Alexander Paseau and Michael Potter) of Mathematical Knowledge (Oxford: OUP, 2007).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 167mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 593g
• ISBN-13: 9780199280797
• ISBN-10: 0199280797
• Artikelnr.: 28949016