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Varieties of maverick philosophy of mathematics
pp. 223-251
Abstrakt
Reuben Hersh is a champion of maverick philosophy of mathematics. He maintains that mathematics is a human activity, intelligible only in a social context; it is the subject where statements are capable in principle of being proved or disproved and where proof or disproof brings unanimous agreement by all qualified experts; mathematicians' proof is deduction from established mathematics; mathematical objects exist only in the shared consciousness of human beings. In this paper I describe my several points of agreement and few points of disagreement with Hersh's views.
Publication details
Published in:
Sriraman Bharath (2017) Humanizing mathematics and its philosophy: essays celebrating the 90th birthday of Reuben Hersh. Basel, Birkhäuser.
Seiten: 223-251
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-61231-7_19
Referenz:
Cellucci Carlo (2017) „Varieties of maverick philosophy of mathematics“, In: B. Sriraman (ed.), Humanizing mathematics and its philosophy, Basel, Birkhäuser, 223–251.