Journal of the ACMS

 

ACMS homepage

 

Journal of the ACMS homepage

 

 

ISSUES

2004 Inaugural Issue

 

CUMULATIVE INDICES

by Author

by Title

by Topic

 

Letter from the Editor

 

Journal of the ACMS 2004 Inaugural Issue

 

The Deconstruction of Mathematics
David Stucki
1999

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.

Article in .pdf format

 

   

Webmaster: Dr. Bryan Dawson, Union University.  Where relevant, materials on this site are © Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences.  All rights reserved.  All opinions expressed on these pages are those of the webmaster or the authors of the materials listed, and are not necessarily those of the ACMS.