ABSTRACT
Today’s burgeoning intellectual climate views all human knowledge as a social construction. Mathematics, the last bastion of certainty in knowledge, has been trying to resist this current of thought. But as we have seen, more and more authors are joining the stream and viewing mathematics as a social construction. Of course social constructivism, the particular philosophy expounded above, is just one account of mathematics from this perspective. Not many alternatives are yet formulated in the philosophy of mathematics, but beyond, parallel views of mathematics and knowledge abound in other disciplines. This chapter explores some of these parallels, showing how overwhelming the intellectual current is becoming.
