Realism, Mathematics, and Modality 0631163034, 9780631163039

Table of contents :
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
1 Introduction: Fictionalism, Epistemology and Modality
PART ONE
1. Fictionalism
2. Initial Plausibility
3. Indispensability Arguments and Inference to the Best Explanation
4. Problems with Platonism
PART TWO
5. Logical Implication
6. Nonlogical Modalities
7. The Anti-platonist's Resources
2 Realism and Anti-Realism about Mathematics
Postscript
3 Is Mathematical Knowledge Just Logical Knowledge?
Postscript
4 On Conservativeness and Incompleteness
5 Platonism for Cheap? Crispin Wright on Frege's Context Principle
6 Can We Dispense with Space-time?
1. Relationalism versus Substantivalism
2. Monadicism: A Third Alternative?
3. Fields
4. The Second Problem for Relationalism; Outline of Rest of Paper
5. Moderate Platonism and Heavy Duty Platonism
6. The Substantivalist Solution to the Problem of Quantities
7. The Problem of Quantities for the Relationalist
8. The Problem of Acceleration as a Special Case of the Problem of Quantities
9. Geometric Possibility and the Problem of Actuality
10. Counterfactuals and Possible Worlds
Postscript
7 Realism, Mathematics and Modality
1. Realism and Truth
2. A Motivation for Mathematical Anti-realism
3. A Version of Mathematical Anti-realism
4. Truth and Substitutional Quantification
5. Modality and Metalogic
6. Modality is not a General Surrogate for Ontology (I)
7. Modality is not a General Surrogate for Ontology (II)
8. Putnam on Realism, Mathematics and Modality
Bibliography
Index

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