Mathematics and the Good Life

Philosophia Mathematica 21 (1):93-109 (2013)
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We mathematical animals should be grateful that mathematics is instrumentally useful. We should not, however, forget its other contributions to human happiness. Bertrand Russell and John Dewey offer timely reminders that provide insight into the role of non-mathematicians in the evaluation of mathematics

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Naturalism in mathematics.Penelope Maddy - 1997 - New York: Oxford University Press.
Knowing and the known.John Dewey - 1949 - Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. Edited by Arthur Fisher Bentley.
The quest for certainty.John Dewey - 1960 [1929] - London,: G. Allen & Unwin.

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