Algunas observaciones sobre la filosofía de la práctica matemática

Paolo Mancosu

doi:10.5281/zenodo.3551818

Paolo Mancosu University of California, Berkeley, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3551818

Keywords: Philosophy of Mathematics, Mathematical Practice, Naturalism, Foundationalism

Abstract

The article is an introduction to a new approach to the philosophy of mathematics that goes under the name of «the philosophy of mathematical practice». The new approach found its expression in the collection The Philosophy of Mathematical Practice (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008) edited by the author. The article situates the «philosophy of mathematical practice» within the context of other traditions in the philosophy of mathematics and outlines the similarities and differences with those traditions.

Author Biography

Paolo Mancosu, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Paolo Mancosu, es Catedrático Willis S. and Marion Slusser de Filosofía en la University of California, Berkeley, Estados Unidos. Doctor en Filosofia (PhD) por la Stanford University, Estados Unidos. Sus intereres de investigación se centran en la filosofía de las matemáticas y su historia, la filosofía de la lógica y la lógica matemática. Entre sus principales publicaciones se cuentan: From Brouwer to Hilbert: The Debate on the Foundations of Mathematics in the 1920s (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997); Philosophy of Mathematics and Mathematical Practice in the Seventeenth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996); The Philosophy of Mathematical Practice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008); y, The Adventure of Reason (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010). En breve aparecerá: Abstraction and Infinity, en Oxford University Press.

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Some remarks on the Philosophy of Mathematical Practice

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