Newsletter of Phenomenology

Keeping phenomenologists informed since May 2002

Repository | Book | Chapter

224692

(2017) Humanizing mathematics and its philosophy, Basel, Birkhäuser.

Mathematical theories as models

Michèle Friend

pp. 291-307

The thoughts in this paper follow a suggestion by Reuben Hersh that pluralists think of mathematical theories as models of other parts of mathematics. Through this lens, the totality of "mathematics' is then a game of interpretation of one theory by another. As a discipline, mathematics is sui generis.

Publication details

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-61231-7_21

Full citation:

Friend, M. (2017)., Mathematical theories as models, in B. Sriraman (ed.), Humanizing mathematics and its philosophy, Basel, Birkhäuser, pp. 291-307.

This document is unfortunately not available for download at the moment.