Set Theory and Its Philosophy: A Critical Introduction

Potter, Michael

ISBN 10: 0199270414 / ISBN 13: 9780199270415

Verlag: Clarendon Press, 2004

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Set Theory and Its Philosophy: A Critical Introduction
• Verlag: Clarendon Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0199270414
• ISBN-13: 9780199270415
• Einband: paperback
• Zustand: Very Good

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Inhaltsangabe

Michael Potter presents a comprehensive new philosophical introduction to set theory. Anyone wishing to work on the logical foundations of mathematics must understand set theory, which lies at its heart. What makes the book unique is that it interweaves a careful presentation of the technical material with a penetrating philosophical critique. Potter does not merely expound the theory dogmatically but at every stage discusses in detail the reasons that can be offered for believing it to be true. Set Theory and its Philosophy is a key text for philosophy, mathematical logic, and computer science.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Michael Potter is University Lecturer in Philosophy, and Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, at Cambridge. He is the author of Sets (1990), on which the present work draws but which was written for a more specialist readership, and Reason's Nearest Kin (2000).