Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1999
Abstract
Mathematics, as an academic discipline, has stood for many years as the last bastion against a growing tide of intellectual relativism that has become all but ubiquitous. More recently, however, efforts have been made to "humanize" mathematics by advocating a social-constructivist approach to the philosophy of mathematics, both in practice and education. This paper is intended to serve as a critical response to one advocate of this approach, Reuben Hersh (What Is Mathematics, Really?, 1997), and in the process a defense of Platonism.
Recommended Citation
Stucki, David J., "The Deconstruction of Mathematics" (1999). ACMS Journal 2004. 12.
https://pillars.taylor.edu/acmsjournal-2004/12
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