New directions for nominalist philosophers of mathematics

Synthese

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 153-175

  Chihara, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fictionalism; Group theory; Indispensability Argument; Nominalism; Nonstandard analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956344256     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-009-9489-9     Document Type: Article

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