Description: Science without Numbers Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Author(s): Hartry Field Format: Paperback Publisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom Imprint: Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 9780198777922, 978-0198777922 Synopsis Science Without Numbers caused a stir in philosophy on its original publication in 1980, with its bold nominalist approach to the ontology of mathematics and science. Hartry Field argues that we can explain the utility of mathematics without assuming it true. Part of the argument is that good mathematics has a special feature ("conservativeness") that allows it to be applied to "nominalistic" claims (roughly, those neutral to the existence of mathematical entities) in a way that generates nominalistic consequences more easily without generating any new ones. Field goes on to argue that we can axiomatize physical theories using nominalistic claims only, and that in fact this has advantages over the usual axiomatizations that are independent of nominalism. There has been much debate about the book since it first appeared. It is now reissued in a revised contains a substantial new preface giving the author's current views on the original book and the issues that were raised in the subsequent discussion of it.
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Book Title: Science without Numbers
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Name: Science without Numbers
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Item Height: 216 mm
Subject: Science, Mathematics
Publication Year: 2016
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 232 g
Author: Hartry Field
Item Width: 135 mm
Format: Paperback
