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Dogmas and the changing images of foundations

José Ferreirós (2005)

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We offer a critical review of several different conceptions of the activity of foundational research, from the time of Gauss to the present. These are (1) the traditional image, guiding Gauss, Dedekind, Frege and others, that sees in the search for more adequate basic systems a logical excavation of structures, (2) the program to find sound formal systems for so-called classical mathematics that can be proved consistent, usually associated with the name of Hilbert, and (3) the historicist...

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Kuno Lorenz (1997)

Philosophia Scientiae

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Mathematical practice and naturalist epistemology : structures with potential for interaction

Bart Van Kerkhove, Jean Paul Van Bendegem (2005)

Philosophia Scientiae

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In current philosophical research, there is a rather one-sided focus on the foundations of proof. A full picture of mathematical practice should however additionally involve considerations about various methodological aspects. A number of these is identified, from large-scale to small-scale ones. After that, naturalism, a philosophical school concerned with scientific practice, is looked at, as far as the translations of its epistemic principles to mathematics is concerned. Finally,...

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Gert H. Müller (1997)

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