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Non-conservative responses to Benacerraf's dilemma

Marco Panza(French National Centre for Scientific Research)Andrea Sereni

pp. 112-148

Abstract

In the present chapter we discuss some of the major responses to Benacerraf's dilemma. In particular, we will discuss some of those that in § 3.3 have been classified, following Hale and Wright (2000), as non-conservative. We will consider four of these: Field's nominalism; fic-tionalism, both in Field's and in Yablo's version; Hellman's eliminative modal structuralism; and the version of platonism advanced by Maddy on cognitive grounds.

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Panza Marco, Sereni Andrea (2013) Plato's problem: an introduction to mathematical Platonism. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Pages: 112-148

DOI: 10.1057/9781137298133_5

Full citation:

Panza Marco, Sereni Andrea (2013) Non-conservative responses to Benacerraf's dilemma, In: Plato's problem, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 112–148.