In "What Do Philosophers Do?: Skepticism and the Practice of Philosophy" untersucht Penelope Maddy die Rolle und Methoden der Philosophie, insbesondere im Kontext des Skeptizismus. Das Buch basiert auf den Romanell Lectures und bietet...

Mathematicians tend to think of themselves as scientists investigating the features of real mathematical things, and the wildly successful application of mathematics in the physical sciences reinforces this picture of mathematics as an...