Mathematical Anti-Realism and Modal Nothingism (eBook)

Mark Balaguer (Autor)

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2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-34604-7 (ISBN)

Infos

This Element defends mathematical anti-realism against an underappreciated problem with that view-a problem having to do with modal truthmaking. Part I develops mathematical anti-realism, it defends that view against a number of well-known objections, and it raises a less widely discussed objection to anti-realism-an objection based on the fact that (a) mathematical anti-realists need to commit to the truth of certain kinds of modal claims, and (b) it's not clear that the truth of these modal claims is compatible with mathematical anti-realism. Part II considers various strategies that anti-realists might pursue in trying to solve this modal-truth problem with their view, it argues that there's only one viable view that anti-realists can endorse in order to solve the modal-truth problem, and it argues that the view in question-which is here called modal nothingism-is true.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.1.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Angewandte Mathematik
• ISBN-10: 1-009-34604-0 / 1009346040
• ISBN-13: 978-1-009-34604-7 / 9781009346047