Sökning: "Mathematical Realism"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 12 avhandlingar innehållade orden Mathematical Realism.
1. Objects and objectivity : Alternatives to mathematical realism
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is centered around a set of apparently conflicting intuitions that we may have about mathematics. On the one hand, we are inclined to believe that the theorems of mathematics are true. LÄS MER
2. Att bli matematisk : Matematisk subjektivitet och genus i lärarutbildningen för de yngre åldrarna
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to investigate the processes through which mathematical and gendered subjectivity is constituted, reconstituted and maintained in different situations during Early Childhood Teacher Education (ECE). In three research articles it is investigated how student teachers’ subjectivity constitutions are expressed, formulated and reformulated in different discursive and material practices. LÄS MER
3. Concept Formation in Mathematics
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of three overlapping parts, where the first one centers around the possibility of defining a measure of the power of arithmetical theories. In this part a partial measure of the power of arithmetical theories is constructed, where “power” is understood as capability to prove theorems. LÄS MER
4. The realism of mathematical school tasks : Features and consequences
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5. Hilary Putnam on Meaning and Necessity
Sammanfattning : In this dissertation on Hilary Putnam's philosophy, I investigate his development regarding meaning and necessity, in particular mathematical necessity. Putnam has been a leading American philosopher since the end of the 1950s, becoming famous in the 1960s within the school of analytic philosophy, associated in particular with the philosophy of science and the philosophy of language. LÄS MER