Reason's Nearest Kin: Philosophies of Arithmetic from Kant to Carnap - Rilegato

Potter, Michael

 
9780198250418: Reason's Nearest Kin: Philosophies of Arithmetic from Kant to Carnap
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ISBN 10: 019825041X ISBN 13: 9780198250418
Casa editrice: Clarendon Press, 2000

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How do we account for the truth of arithmetic? And if it does not depend for its truth on the way the world is, what constrains the world to conform to arithmetic? Reason's Nearest Kin is a critical examination of the astonishing progress made towards answering these questions from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. In the space of fifty years Frege, Dedekind, Russell, Wittgenstein, Ramsey, Hilbert, and Carnap developed accounts of the content of arithmetic that were brilliantly original both technically and philosophically. Michael Potter's innovative study presents them all as finding that content in various aspects of the complex linkage between experience, language, thought, and the world. Potter's reading places them all in Kant's shadow since it was his attempt to ground arithmetic in the spatio-temporal structure of reality that they were reacting against; but it places us in Gödel's shadow since his incompleteness theorems supply us with a measure of the richness of the content they were trying to explain. This stimulating reassessment of some of the classic texts in the philosophy of mathematics reveals many unexpected connections and illuminating comparisons, and offers a wealth of ideas for future work in the subject.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Michael Potter is a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and University Lecturer in Philosophy, having previously been Lecturer in Mathematics.

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Editore
Clarendon Press
Data di pubblicazione
2000
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
019825041X
ISBN 13 
9780198250418
Rilegatura
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Numero di pagine
316
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9780199252619: Reason'sNearest Kin: Philosophies of Arithmetic from Kant to Carnap

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ISBN 10:  0199252610 ISBN 13:  9780199252619
Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2002
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