Fictionalism and Mathematical Objectivity

In Mircea Dumitru, Mircea Flonta & Valentin Muresan (eds.), Metaphysics and Science. Dedicated to professor Ilie Pârvu. Universty of Bucharest Press. pp. 137-158 (2012)
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Abstract

This paper, written in Romanian, compares fictionalism, nominalism, and neo-Meinongianism as responses to the problem of objectivity in mathematics, and then motivates a fictionalist view of objectivity as invariance.

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