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Title: Philosophy of Mathematics: An Introductory Essay (Revised)

Author: Stephan Korner

ISBN: 0486250482

Publisher: Dover Publications

Published: 1986

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Number of Pages: 198

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Publisher : Concise, accessible sketches of the views of Plato, Aristotle, Leibniz, and Kant highlight this study of the general structure and foundation of pure and applied mathematics. Author Stephan Korner dedicates two chapters apiece one expository and one critical to each of the three main modern schools of thought on mathematical philosophy: the formalists, the logicists, and the intuitionists. After critically examining the propositions and theories of each philosophy, Korner presents a new position concerning the relation between mathematical theories, empirical data, and philosophical presuppositions.
The “Review of Metaphysics” praised this volume as “a lucid and stimulating essay which combines accuracy and sophistication with a minimum of technical language.” Compact but comprehensive, this nontechnical introduction will appeal to professionals, students, and other readers interested in the intersection of philosophical problems with pure and applied mathematics.”