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| #755623 in Books | 2016-12-27 | 2016-12-27 | Original language:English | 5.30 x.50 x8.40l,.48 | File type: PDF | 176 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Esoteric and far-reaching|By HH|This book is an important and original contribution to the philosophy of mathematics. Indeed, I think it is fair to say that Field's book is the first serious study of what we might call the philosophy of applied mathematics: the use of mathematics in empirical theories. Field's main concern is to refute the familiar Quinean argument for mathemat|About the Author||Hartry Field, New York University||Hartry Field is the University Professor and Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University, having previously taught at Princeton, University of Southern California, and the City University of
Science Without Numbers caused a stir in philosophy on its original publication in 1980, with its bold nominalist approach to the ontology of mathematics and science. Hartry Field argues that we can explain the utility of mathematics without assuming it true. Part of the argument is that good mathematics has a special feature ("conservativeness") that allows it to be applied to "nominalistic" claims (roughly, those neutral to the existence of mathematical entiti...
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