Mathematical knowledge, the analytic method, and naturalism
This article aims to suggest that a promising step towards the elaboration of an adequate naturalist account of mathematics and mathematical knowledge may be to take the method of mathematics to be the analytic method rather than the axiomatic method. Indeed, it seems impossible to naturalize mathematics without challenging at least some crucial aspects of the traditional view of mathematics, according to which mathematical knowledge is certain and the method of mathematics is the axiomatic method.