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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Mathematics and conceptual analysis |
Author: | Eagle, A. |
Citation: | Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science, 2008; March 2008(161):67-88 |
Publisher: | Kluwer Academic Publ |
Issue Date: | 2008 |
ISSN: | 0039-7857 1573-0964 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Antony Eagle |
Abstract: | Gödel argued that intuition has an important role to play in mathematical epistemology, and despite the infamy of his own position, this opinion still has much to recommend it. Intuitions and folk platitudes play a central role in philosophical enquiry too, and have recently been elevated to a central position in one project for understanding philosophical methodology: the so-called ‘Canberra Plan’. This philosophical role for intuitions suggests an analogous epistemology for some fundamental parts of mathematics, which casts a number of themes in recent philosophy of mathematics (concerning a priority and fictionalism, for example) in revealing new light. |
Keywords: | Intuitions Platitudes Conceptual analysis Foundations of mathematics Fictionalism |
Rights: | © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s11229-006-9151-8 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-006-9151-8 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 4 Philosophy publications |
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