Enumerated entities in public policy and governance

Helen Verran

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-21473-3

Enumerated entities in public policy and governance

Helen Verran

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Abstract

A poster promoting policy change in Australia’s fisheries, which features a list of seven numbers in its effort to persuade, serves as occasion to do ontology. A performativist analytic is mobilized to show the mutual entanglements of politics and epistemics within which these numbers, agential in policy, come to life. Three distinct types of entanglement are revealed. Numbers have different political valences, and mathematicians need to attend to these in order to act responsibly as mathematicians.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Mathematics, Substance and Surmise
Subtitle of host publication	Views on the Meaning and Ontology of Mathematics
Editors	Ernest Davis, Philip J. Davis
Place of Publication	Cham, Switzerland
Publisher	Springer
Chapter	18
Pages	365-379
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-319-21473-3
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-21472-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21473-3
Publication status	Published - 2015

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