Road Work Ahead: Heavy Machinery on the Easy Road

Mind 121 (484):1031-1046 (2012)
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In this paper I reply to Jody Azzouni, Otávio Bueno, Mary Leng, David Liggins, and Stephen Yablo, who offer defences of so-called ‘ easy road ’ nominalist strategies in the philosophy of mathematics

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Mathematical Explanation in Science.Alan Baker - 2009 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 60 (3):611-633.
There is No Easy Road to Nominalism.M. Colyvan - 2010 - Mind 119 (474):285-306.

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