Thin Objects by Oystein Linnebo

Thin Objects by Oystein Linnebo

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Mathematics appears to be concerned with abstract objects such as numbers and sets. What are these objects? Øystein Linnebo develops a distinctive approach to ontology, in which abstract objects such as numbers and sets are demystified and allowed to exist alongside more familiar physical objects.

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Thin Objects by Oystein Linnebo

Mathematics appears to be concerned with abstract objects such as numbers and sets. What are these objects? ystein Linnebo develops a distinctive approach to ontology, in which abstract objects such as numbers and sets are demystified and allowed to exist alongside more familiar physical objects.
Thin Objects is therefore warmly recommended as a novel contribution to the philosophy of mathematicsIt gives a thorough understanding of the abstractionist approach, clearly showing its Fregean roots, but at the same time diverging from Frege and the neo-Fregeans in substantial and innovative ways. * Inger Bakken Pedersen, The Mathematical Intelligencer *
Recommended. * D. A. Forbes, CHOICE *
Øystein Linnebo took up a Professorship at the University of Oslo in 2012, having previously been a Professor at Birkbeck, University of London, and held positions at Bristol and Oxford. He obtained his PhD in Philosophy from Harvard in 2002 and an MA in Mathematics from Oslo in 1995. His main research interests lie in philosophical logic, philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics, early analytic philosophy (especially Frege), as well as parts of philosophy of language and philosophy of science. He has published more than fifty articles and is the author of Philosophy of Mathematics (Princeton University Press 2017).
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ISBN 13 9780199641314
ISBN 10 0199641315
Titre Thin Objects
Auteur Øystein Linnebo
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Type de reliure Hardback
Éditeur Oxford University Press
Année de publication 2018-06-14
Nombre de pages 256
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