A Subject with No Object: Strategies for Nominalistic Interpretation of Mathematics

by Gideon Rosen and John P. Burgess

Book Overview

Numbers and other mathematical objects are exceptional in having no locations in space or time or relations of cause and effect. This makes it difficult to account for the possibility of the knowledge of such objects, leading many philosophers to embrace nominalism, the doctrine that there are no such objects, and to embark on ambitious projects for interpreting mathematics so as to preserve the subject while eliminating its objects. This book cuts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198250126
• ISBN13: 9780198250128
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"