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  1. Platonism and Anti-Platonism in Mathematics.Mark Balaguer - 1998 - Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 8 (4):516-518.
    This book does three main things. First, it defends mathematical platonism against the main objections to that view (most notably, the epistemological objection and the multiple-reductions objection). Second, it defends anti-platonism (in particular, fictionalism) against the main objections to that view (most notably, the Quine-Putnam indispensability objection and the objection from objectivity). Third, it argues that there is no fact of the matter whether abstract mathematical objects exist and, hence, no fact of the matter whether platonism or anti-platonism is true.
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  • Truth and objectivity.Brian David Ellis - 1990 - Cambridge, Mass., USA: Blackwell.
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  • (1 other version)Truth and Objectivity.Brian Ellis - 1991 - Mind 100 (2):293-295.
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  • (1 other version)Truth and Objectivity.Brian Ellis - 1991 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 42 (2):291-294.
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  • Is platonism a bad bet?Mark Colyvan - 1998 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 76 (1):115 – 119.
    Recently Colin Cheyne and Charles Pigden have challenged supporters of mathematical indispensability arguments to give an account of how causally inert mathematical entities could be indispensable to science. Failing to meet this challenge, claim Cheyne and Pigden, would place Platonism in a no win situation: either there is no good reason to believe in mathematical entities or mathematical entities are not causally inert. The present paper argues that Platonism is well equipped to meet this challenge.
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