Science Without Numbers: A Defence of Nominalism
Princeton, NJ, USA: Princeton University Press (1980)
Abstract
Science Without Numbers caused a stir in 1980, with its bold nominalist approach to the philosophy of mathematics and science. It has been unavailable for twenty years and is now reissued in a revised edition with a substantial new preface presenting the author's current views and responses to the issues raised in subsequent debate.Author's Profile
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2016
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Q175.F477 2016
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0631126724 0198777922 9780198777915 9780198777922 0198777914 9780631126720 0691072604 0631130373 9780691072609 9780191823381
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Nominalism and the Structure of Physical Space
Argues that the Hilbert theory of the previous chapter not only dispenses with real numbers, but is (or can be made with a little rewriting) a genuinely nominalistic theory of the structure of physical space. Arguing this involves a brief discussion of some questions in the philosophy of s... see more
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Citations of this work
From Metaphysics to Ethics: A Defence of Conceptual Analysis.Frank Jackson - 1998 - Oxford University Press.
On what grounds what.Jonathan Schaffer - 2009 - In David Manley, David J. Chalmers & Ryan Wasserman (eds.), Metametaphysics: New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology. Oxford University Press. pp. 347-383.
Abstract Objects: An Introduction to Axiomatic Metaphysics.Edward N. Zalta - 1983 - Dordrecht, Netherland: D. Reidel.
