A Subject with No Object: Strategies for Nominalistic Interpretation of Mathematics by Gideon Rosen, John P. Burgess

A Subject with No Object: Strategies for Nominalistic Interpretation of Mathematics

Gideon Rosen, John P. Burgess

272 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction mathematics philosophy challenging informative medium-paced
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Numbers and other mathematical objects are exceptional in having no locations in space or time or relations of cause and effect. This makes it difficult to account for the possibility of the knowledge of such objects, leading many philosophers to ...

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