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The aim of this article is to show and critically analyse the explanation - different from traditional approaches - of the nature of mathematics with reference to the social-cultural factors. Speaking of traditional approaches, the author means the traditional approaches of philosophy of mathematics that came into being at the beginning of the 20th century, namely: logicism, intuitionism and formalism. The common feature of traditional approaches is to consider mathematics as a domain of objective knowledge, indep...

Naturalism is a view that everything that exists is Nature. There doesn't exist any other reality, apart from the natural one. Naturalists require that all phenomena be expressed taking into account only their natural causes. Natural causes are the ones that are accessible for scientific cognition. Science (physics) tries to describe this reality basing on observation and experiment as a foundation for creating theoretical constructs (theories) pertaining to natural phenomena. Mark Steiner, in his book entitled Th...