Structure and categoricity: determinacy of reference and truth value in the philosophy of mathematics

DOI10.1093/PHILMAT/NKW007MaRDI QIDQ2965646zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tim Button, Sean Walsh

Publication date 3 March 2017

Published in Philosophia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.00472, https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/254508

zbMATH Keywords

arithmeticset theorycategoricity arguments

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30)

Abstract: This article surveys recent literature by Parsons, McGee, Shapiro and others on the significance of categoricity arguments in the philosophy of mathematics. After discussing whether categoricity arguments are sufficient to secure reference to mathematical structures up to isomorphism, we assess what exactly is achieved by recent `internal' renditions of the famous categoricity arguments for arithmetic and set theory.

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