Philosophies of mathematics
Editorial BLACKWELL PUBLISHERS LTD.
España peninsular
During the first few decades of the twentieth century, philosophers and mathematicians mounted a sustained effort to clarify the nature of mathematics. This led to considerable discord, even enmity, and yielded fascinating and fruitful work of both a...
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- ISBN13 9780631195443
- ISBN10 0631195440
- Tipo LIBRO
- Páginas 230
- Año de Edición 2002
- Idioma Inglés
- Encuadernación Rústica
Philosophies of mathematics
Editorial BLACKWELL PUBLISHERS LTD.
During the first few decades of the twentieth century, philosophers and mathematicians mounted a sustained effort to clarify the nature of mathematics. This led to considerable discord, even enmity, and yielded fascinating and fruitful work of both a...
España peninsular
Detalles del libro
During the first few decades of the twentieth century, philosophers and mathematicians mounted a sustained effort to clarify the nature of mathematics. This led to considerable discord, even enmity, and yielded fascinating and fruitful work of both a mathematical and a philosophical nature. It was one of the most exhilarating intellectual adventures of the century, pursued at an extraordinarily high level of acuity and imagination. Its legacy principally consists of three original and finely articulated programs that seek to view mathematics in the proper light: logicism, intuitionism, and finitism. Each is notable for its symbiotic melding together of philosophical vision and mathematical work: the philosophical ideas are given their substance by specific mathematical developments, which are in turn given their point by philosophical reflection. This book provides an accessible, critical introduction to these three projects, as it describes and investigates both their philosophical and their mathematical components.