The Adventure of Reason: Interplay Between Philosophy Of Mathematics And Mathematical Logic, 1900-1940 - Softcover

Mancosu, Paolo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198701519 ISBN 13: 9780198701514

Verlag: Oxford University Press, Usa, 2014

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This book contains an enormous amount of material that historians will wish to consult. Mancosu convincingly demonstrates that there is a great deal more that we can still learn about the origins of modern mathematical logic. (Michael Potter, Philosophia Mathematica)

Reseña del editor:

Paolo Mancosu presents a series of innovative studies in the history and the philosophy of logic and mathematics in the first half of the twentieth century. The Adventure of Reason is divided into five main sections: history of logic (from Russell to Tarski); foundational issues (Hilbert's program, constructivity, Wittgenstein, Gödel); mathematics and phenomenology (Weyl, Becker, Mahnke); nominalism (Quine, Tarski); semantics (Tarski, Carnap, Neurath). Mancosu exploits extensive untapped archival sources to make available a wealth of new material that deepens in significant ways our understanding of these fascinating areas of modern intellectual history. At the same time, the book is a contribution to recent philosophical debates, in particular on the prospects for a successful nominalist reconstruction of mathematics, the nature of finitist intuition, the viability of alternative definitions of logical consequence, and the extent to which phenomenology can hope to account for the exact sciences.

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• Verlag: Oxford University Press, Usa
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0198701519
• ISBN 13: 9780198701514
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 630