Badiou’s Materialist Epistemology of Mathematics / trans. from Engl. by Z. M. Neustroev

The article is devoted to the analysis of the main points of Alain Badiou’s early works, in which the author, relying on his own reading of Louis Althusser, Gaston Bachelard, Georges Canguilhem and other representatives of French epistemology, develops the notion of a materialist epistemology of mathematics. The intersections and divergences with the tradition of analytic epistemology, represented in the persons of Rudolf Carnap and Willard Quine, are explored, culminating in the Badiou’s concept of model and historicity of mathematical production.

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