The Euclidean Programme Paperback / softback
by A. C. (University of Oxford) Paseau, Wesley (LSE - Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method) Wrigley
Part of the Elements in the Philosophy of Mathematics series
Paperback / softback
Description
The Euclidean Programme embodies a traditional sort of epistemological foundationalism, according to which knowledge – especially mathematical knowledge – is obtained by deduction from self-evident axioms or first principles.
Epistemologists have examined foundationalism extensively, but neglected its historically dominant Euclidean form.
By contrast, this book offers a detailed examination of Euclidean foundationalism, which, following Lakatos, the authors call the Euclidean Programme.
The book rationally reconstructs the programme's key principles, showing it to be an epistemological interpretation of the axiomatic method.
It then compares the reconstructed programme with select historical sources: Euclid's Elements, Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, Descartes's Discourse on Method, Pascal's On the Geometric Mind and a twentieth-century account of axiomatisation.
The second half of the book philosophically assesses the programme, exploring whether various areas of contemporary mathematics conform to it.
The book concludes by outlining a replacement for the Euclidean Programme.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:82 pages, Worked examples or Exercises; 6 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:22/02/2024
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- ISBN:9781009221986
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:82 pages, Worked examples or Exercises; 6 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:22/02/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781009221986
