"The Deconstruction of Mathematics: A criticism of Reuben Hersh's What " by David J. Stucki
 

Mathematics Faculty Scholarship

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

1999

Publication Title

Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference of the Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences

Publisher

Wheaton, Illinois: ACMS

Keywords

Mathematics, Philosophy, Platonism

Abstract

Mathematics, as an academic discipline, has stood for many years as the last bastion against a growing tide of intellectual relativism that has become all but ubiquitous. More recently, however, efforts have been made to "humanize" mathematics by advocating a social-constructivist approach to the philosophy of mathematics, both in practice and education. This paper is intended to serve as a critical response to one advocate of this approach, Reuben Hersh (What Is Mathematics, Really?, 1997), and in the process a defense of Platonism.

First Page

1

Last Page

21

Original Citation

Stucki, David J. "The Deconstruction of Mathematics: A criticism of Reuben Hersh's What Is Mathematics, Really? and the Humanist Philosophy of Mathematics." Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference of the Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences (1999):1-21

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