The Adventure of Reason : Interplay Between Philosophy of Mathematics and Mathematical Logic, 1900-1940 PDF
by Paolo Mancosu
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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, Godel); 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 prospectsfor 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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- Pages:632 pages
- Publisher:OUP Oxford
- Publication Date:09/01/2014
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- ISBN:9780191021992
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:632 pages
- Publisher:OUP Oxford
- Publication Date:09/01/2014
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- ISBN:9780191021992
