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Russell and Carnap or Bourbaki? Two Ways Towards Structures

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Recent years have featured the existence of a variety of structuralisms, with an important partition between methodological versus philosophical structuralism. Inside philosophical structuralism, many trends can be identified, corresponding to various ontological stances. We argue here that another main partition has contributed to organize structuralism in the twentieth century, rooted in different technical and theoretical interests. This partition is largely transversal to the ones classically identified. Concretely, the paper will focus on possible differences between an arithmetical and logical notion of structure that can be traced back to the writings of Bertrand Russell and Rudolf Carnap, and a mathematical notion of structure, exemplified in the works by Bourbaki. This coexistence gives rise to a fundamental ambiguity that affects contemporary structuralism. Philosophically, in one case the attention is rather centered on a foundational and reductionist perspective, as featured by the Whitehead-Russell Principia and the Carnapian project of the Aufbau: the scientific construction of the world around the idea of structure. In the other, the focus is on epistemological and dynamical issues, as exemplified by two key issues in Bourbaki’s treatise: understanding the architecture of mathematics, offering a tool-kit to mathematicians. These two distinct meanings still coexist inside contemporary scientific practices and lead to different theoretical interests, as we will show thanks to various recent examples.
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halshs-04384983, version 1 (10-01-2024)

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Paola Cantù, Frédéric Patras. Russell and Carnap or Bourbaki? Two Ways Towards Structures. Logic, Epistemology, and Scientific Theories - From Peano to the Vienna Circle, 29, Springer Nature Switzerland, pp.193-216, 2023, Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, ⟨10.1007/978-3-031-42190-7_9⟩. ⟨halshs-04384983⟩
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