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TITLE: Some Remarks on the Physicalist Account of Mathematics
AUTHORS: Ferenc Csatari
KEYWORDS: Physicalism; Formalism; Philosophy of Mathematics
JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Philosophy, Vol.2 No.2, May 22, 2012
ABSTRACT: The paper comments on a rather uncommon approach to mathematics called physicalist formalism. According to this view, the formal systems mathematicians concern with are nothing more and nothing less than genuine physical systems. I give a brief review on the main theses, then I provide some arguments, concerning mostly with the practice of mathematics and the uniqueness of formal systems, aiming to show the implausibility of this radical view.