The Deconstruction of Mathematics: A criticism of Reuben Hersh's What Is Mathematics, Really? and the Humanist Philosophy of Mathematics
“My readers know how impatient I am with some pragmatists, phenomenologists, and subjective idealists of various schools who heap scorn on the notion that mathematical structures are ‘out there’ with a reality that is not mind dependent. For these thinkers, mathematical reality is located within human experience. Like...the overwhelming majority of eminent mathematicians past and present, I am a Platonist in the sense that I believe mathematical patterns are discovered, not invented. Of course, they are still invented, in a sense. Everything humans do and say is what humans do and say. Mathematics obviously is part of human culture, but to say so is to say something utterly trivial.”