En este artículo se presentan los lineamientos generales de una teoría cultural de la
objetivación–una teoría de la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de las matemáticas que se inspira …

This chapter sketches a theory of teaching and learning that takes its inspiration from some
anthropological and historico-cultural schools of knowledge—the theory of knowledge …

A number of people have recently argued for a structural approach to accounting for the
applications of mathematics. Such an approach has been called “the map** account” …

A famous ecologist and a philosopher of science team up to offer a fresh new approach to
population biology and ecology. Challenging the traditionally accepted Lotka-Volterra …

The applicability of mathematics in science has received renewed attention in recent years.
The most influential recent approaches focus on how mathematical structures relate to …

Joseph Melia, in a recent paper in this journal (Melia 2000), outlines a very interesting
nominalist strategy for the philosophy of mathematics. In essence, Melia argues, contra …

This article provides a critical commentary on the concepts of representation and digital
artefacts in Morgan and Kynigos's article of this Special Issue. To set the context, in the first …

Nominalism about mathematics (or mathematical nominalism) is the view according to which
either mathematical objects, relations, and structures do not exist at all, or they do not exist …

This study addresses a central theme in current philosophy: Platonism vs Naturalism and
provides accounts of both approaches to mathematics, crucially discussing Quine, Maddy …

The Viewpoint column offers mathematicians the opportunity to write about any issue of
interest to the international mathematical community. Disagreement and controversy are …