Mathematics and Metaphilosophy
Part of Elements in the Philosophy of Mathematics
- Author: Justin Clarke-Doane, Columbia University, New York
- Date Published: June 2022
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- isbn: 9781108995405
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This Element discusses the problem of mathematical knowledge, and its broader philosophical ramifications. It argues that the challenge to explain the (defeasible) justification of our mathematical beliefs ('the justificatory challenge'), arises insofar as disagreement over axioms bottoms out in disagreement over intuitions. And it argues that the challenge to explain their reliability ('the reliability challenge'), arises to the extent that we could have easily had different beliefs. The Element shows that mathematical facts are not, in general, empirically accessible, contra Quine, and that they cannot be dispensed with, contra Field. However, it argues that they might be so plentiful that our knowledge of them is unmysterious. The Element concludes with a complementary 'pluralism' about modality, logic and normative theory, highlighting its surprising implications. Metaphysically, pluralism engenders a kind of perspectivalism and indeterminacy. Methodologically, it vindicates Carnap's pragmatism, transposed to the key of realism.
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- Date Published: June 2022
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108995405
- length: 75 pages
- dimensions: 230 x 152 x 4 mm
- weight: 0.1kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Self-Evidence, Analyticity, and Intuition
2. Observation and Indispensability
3. Connection, Contingency and Pluralism
4. Modality, Logic, and Normativity
Conclusions.
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