• Otavio Bueno, Logicism Revisited.
    ln this paper I develop a new defense of logicism: one that combines logicism and nominalism. First, I defend the logtcist approach from recent criticisms; in particular from the charge that a crucial principle in the logrcist reconstruction of arithmetic, I·Iume’s Principle, is not analytic. In order to do that, I argue, it is crucial to understand the overall logicist approach as a nominalist view I then indicate a way of extending the nominalist logzcist approach beyond arithmetic. Finally, I argue that a nominalist can use the resulting approach to provide a nominalizatzon strategy for mathematics. In this way, mathematical structures can be introduced without ontological costs. And so, if this proixrsal is correct, we cansay that ultimately all the norminalist needs is logic (and, rather loosely, all the logicrst needs is nominalism).
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