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  • Title Defending the Axioms: On the Philosophical Foundations of Set Theory
  • Author Penelope Maddy
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 162
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher OUP Oxford, 2013. 162p. Paperback.
  • Date 2013-05-05
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780199671489 / 0199671486
  • Weight 0.43 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.35 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 0.89 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 511.322

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Penelope Maddy is Distinguished Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Naturalism in Mathematics (OUP, 1997), Realism in Mathematics (OUP, 1992), and Second Philosophy (OUP, 2007).
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