Stewart Shapiro: 3 books

Book cover of Varieties of Logic
by Stewart Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014

Logical pluralism is the view that different logics are equally appropriate, or equally correct. Logical relativism is a pluralism according to which validity and logical consequence are relative to something. In Varieties of Logic, Stewart Shapiro develops several ways in which one can be a pluralist...
Book cover of Mathematical Structuralism
by Geoffrey Hellman, Stewart Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018

The present work is a systematic study of five frameworks or perspectives articulating mathematical structuralism, whose core idea is that mathematics is concerned primarily with interrelations in abstraction from the nature of objects. The first two, set-theoretic and category-theoretic, arose within...
Book cover of Filosofia da Matemática
by Stewart Shapiro
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: December 5, 2018

Este é um livro de filosofia, sobre matemática. Há, primeiro, questões de metafísica: de que trata a matemática? Tem um conteúdo? Qual é esse conteúdo? O que são números, conjuntos, pontos, linhas, funções, e por aí adiante? E depois há questões semânticas: o que significam as proposições...
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