Nominalism and Constructivism in Seventeenth-Century Mathematical Philosophy - Rilegato

Sepkoski, David

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ISBN 10: 0415702119 ISBN 13: 9780415702119

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2007

Riassunto

What was the basis for the adoption of mathematics as the primary mode of discourse for describing natural events by a large segment of the philosophical community in the seventeenth century?

In answering this question, this book demonstrates that a significant group of philosophers shared the belief that there is no necessary correspondence between external reality and objects of human understanding, which they held to include the objects of mathematical and linguistic discourse. The result is a scholarly reliable, but accessible, account of the role of mathematics in the works of (amongst others) Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton, Leibniz, and Berkeley.

This impressive volume will benefit scholars interested in the history of philosophy, mathematical philosophy and the history of mathematics.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

David Sepkoski is Assistant Professor of History at Oberlin College, USA.

Contenuti:

Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction - Mathematization and the ‘Language of Nature’; Chapter 2: Realists and Nominalists: Language and Mathematics before the Scientific Revolution; Chapter 3: Ontology Recapitulates Epistemology: Gassendi, Epicurean Atomism, and Nominalism; Chapter 4: British Empiricism, Nominalism, and Constructivism; Chapter 5: Three Mathematicians: Constructivist Epistemology and the New Mathematical Methods; Conclusion: Mathematization and the Nature of Language; Notes; References; Index

 

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0415702119
• ISBN 13: 9780415702119
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 180