Philosophy of mathematical practice — Motivations, themes and prospects

Jessica Carter

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Philosophy of mathematical practice — Motivations, themes and prospects

Jessica Carter^*

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Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

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A number of examples of studies from the field ‘The Philosophy of Mathematical Practice’ (PMP) are given. To characterise this new field, three different strands are identified: an agent-based, a historical, and an epistemological PMP. These differ in how they understand ‘practice’ and which assumptions lie at the core of their investigations. In the last part a general framework, capturing some overall structure of the field, is proposed.

Original language	English
Journal	Philosophia Mathematica
Volume	27
Issue number	1
Pages (from-to)	1-32
Number of pages	32
ISSN	1744-6406
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/philmat/nkz002
Publication status	Published - Feb 2019

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