Coulter2024
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Coulter2024 |
| Author(s) | Jeff Coulter |
| Title | Mathematics and the social order |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Michael Lynch, Mathematics |
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| Year | 2024 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Ethnographic Studies |
| Volume | 20 |
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| Pages | 68-79 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.26034/lu.ethns.2024.6913 |
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Abstract
The sociology of knowledge (a subfield of the discipline of sociology introduced by Karl Mannheim) famously excluded mathematics from its purview. In this essay, I seek to argue that there indeed are some ways in which mathematical ideas can be analyzed sociologically, especially if we employ some of the insights of philosophers, especially the later Wittgenstein.
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