Putnam and contemporary fictionalism

dc.contributor.affiliationUniversidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Filosofía e Antropoloxíagl
dc.contributor.authorMartínez Vidal, Concha
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-13T10:57:52Z
dc.date.available2020-05-13T10:57:52Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractIn his "Indispensability arguments in mathematics", Putnam rejects having argued in the terms of the argument known in the literature as "the Quine-Putnam indispensability argument". He considers that mathematics contribution to physics does not have to be interpreted in platonist terms but in his favorite modal variety (Putnam 1975; Putnam 2012). The purpose of this paper is to consider Putnam's acknowledged argument and philosophical position against contemporary so called in the literature 'fictionalist' views about applied mathematics. The conclusion will be that the account of the applicability of mathematics that stems from Putnam's acknowledged argument can be assimilated in many aspects to so-called 'fictionalist' views about applied mathematics.gl
dc.description.abstractPutnam rechaza haber suscrito el argumento conocido como «argumento de la indispensabilidad de Quine y Putnam». Considera que la contribución de la matemática a la física no tiene por qué interpretarse en términos platónicos sino en términos modales (Putnam 1975; Putnam 2012). En este trabajo se contrapone el argumento que Putnam sostiene haber defendido—y la posición filosófica que lo sustenta—, a ciertas concepciones ficcionalistas contemporáneas de la matemática aplicada. De ese análisis se concluye que la concepción de la aplicabilidad de la matemática que subyace a la propuesta de Putnam coincide en muchos aspectos con las concepciones ficcionalistas analizadas.gl
dc.description.peerreviewedSIgl
dc.description.sponsorshipThe research was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competititivity and FEDER under projects FFI2013-41415-P, FFI2017-82534-Pgl
dc.identifier.citationMartínez-Vidal, C. (2018). Putnam and contemporary fictionalism. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 33(2), 165-181. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1387/theoria.17610gl
dc.identifier.doi10.1387/theoria.17610
dc.identifier.essn2171-679X
dc.identifier.issn0495-4548
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10347/22276
dc.language.isoenggl
dc.publisherUniversidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitateagl
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dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/FFI2017-82534-P/ES/OBJETOS ABSTRACTOS: PROPUESTAS A FAVOR Y EN CONTRA. UNA SOLUCION NEO-CARNAPIANA
dc.relation.publisherversionhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1387/theoria.17610gl
dc.rights© 2018 The author. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) Licensegl
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dc.subjectPutnamgl
dc.subjectIndispensabilitygl
dc.subjectFictionalismgl
dc.subjectYablogl
dc.subjectFieldgl
dc.subjectIndispensabilidadgl
dc.subjectFiccionalismogl
dc.subjectOntologíagl
dc.titlePutnam and contemporary fictionalismgl
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