Indispensability and explanation

Synthese

Daniele Molinini, Fabrice Pataut, Andrea Sereni (eds)

2016

Plato's problem

Marco PanzaAndrea Sereni

Palgrave Macmillan - Basingstoke

2013

What is mathematics about? And how can we have access to the reality it is supposed to describe? The book tells the story of this problem, first raised by Plato, through the views of Aristotle, Proclus, Kant, Frege, Gödel, Benacerraf, up to the most recent debate on mathematical platonism. .