Kant’s Views on Mathematics and Constructivism

• Authors: Marcin Poręba

Title variants

PL

Poglądy Kanta na matematykę a konstruktywizm

EN

Kant’s Views on Mathematics and Constructivism

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

The author rejects the opinion that Kant’s views on mathematics lend in any interesting sense support to constructivism, understood as the thesis that the truth conditions of mathematical propositions consist in the existence of their constructive proofs or in the possibility of proving them constructively. Kant’s insistence on the role of intuitive construction in mathematics is here interpreted as a thesis concerning mathematical concepts, not mathematical objects, and therefore not in any sense implying that the objects of mathematical cognition cannot be interpreted classically.

• Publisher: University of Warsaw, Institute of Philosophy
• Journal: Filozofia Nauki
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 20
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 93-102

Dates

published

2012-03-01

Contributors

author

Marcin Poręba