Most predominant philosophical attitude toward mathematics

[Ahmed Abdullah]

What is the most predominant philosophical attitude toward mathematics among mathematicians?
I am talking about things like mathematical platonism, formalism, logicism etc.
In some circumstances I feel that I am a platonist (e.g when thinking about pi) in others logicist or formalist etc. Does one have to be one or other?

Thx in advance.

 

[jedishrfu]

There is a good discussion on this topic in Wikipedia.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mathematics

I can't say whether a poll has ever been done to determine where all mathematicians stand on this. I suspect though that most are caught in their interest to math and not its philosophical underpinnings.

 

[HallsofIvy]

While I can't speak with any degree of authority on this, I suspect that "structuralism" is most common among mathematicians, whether they think of it that way or not.

 

[Evo]

Philosophy discussions are not allowed, since the thread is not staying away from philosophy as jedishrfu suggested, it is closed.