List of Figures and Tables <br>Preface <br>Introduction 1 <br>Ch. 1 Fresh Breezes in the Philosophy of Mathematics / Reuben Hersh 11 <br>Ch. 2 What Can the Sociologist of Knowledge Say About 2 + 2 = 4? / David Bloor 21 <br>Ch. 3 The Dialogical Nature of Mathematics / Paul Ernest 33 <br>Ch. 4 Structuralism and Post-modernism in the Philosophy of Mathematics / Thomas Tymoczko 49 <br>Ch. 5 Reasoning in a Post-modern Age / Valerie Walkerdine 61 <br>Ch. 6 Mathematical Writing, Thinking, and Virtual Reality / Brian Rotman 76 <br>Ch. 7 Mathematics: The Problematical Notion of Closure / Anna Tsatsaroni, Jeff Evans 87 <br>Ch. 8 On the Ecologies of Mathematical Language and the Rhythms of the Earth / David W. Jardine 109 <br>Ch. 9 Discursive Saturation and School Mathematics Texts: A Strand from a Language of Description / Paul Dowling 124 <br>Ch. 10 The Dominance of Structure in ‘Post-structural’ Critiques of Mathematics Education / Jeff Vass 143 <br>Ch. 11 Describing the Mathematics You Are Part Of: A Post-structuralist Account of Mathematical Learning / Tony Brown 154 <br>Ch. 12 Mathematics and Art: Cold Calipers Against Warm Flesh? / Philip J. Davis 165 <br>Ch. 13 Skolem and Godel / Hao Wang 184 <br>Ch. 14 Different Ways of Knowing: Contrasting Styles of Argument in Indian and Greek Mathematical Traditions / George Gheverghese Joseph 194 <br>Ch. 15 The Social Life of Mathematics / Sal Restivo 209 <br>Ch. 16 Research in Gender and Mathematics Education: The Production of Difference / Mairead Dunne, Jayne Johnston 221 <br>Ch. 17 Ethno-mathematics, the Nature of Mathematics and Mathematics Education / Ubiratan D’Ambrosio 230 <br>Notes on Contributors 243 <br>Index 245 <br>