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Metamathematics and the philosophical tradition /

Metamathematics and the Philosophical Tradition is the first work to explore in such historical depth the relationship between fundamental philosophical quandaries regarding self-reference and meta-mathematical notions of consistency and incompleteness. Using the insights of twentieth-century logici...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boos, William (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : Walter de Gruyter, 2018.
Edición:1 [edition].
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Editorial Remarks
  • 1. Introduction: Boundaries of Experience
  • 2. "Was Blind, But Now I See": Ramifications of Plato's "Line"
  • 3. The Stoics, the Skeptics and Aporetic Autonomy: Is "What Is In Our Power" In Our Power?
  • 4. Anselm, Fides Quaerens Interpretationem, and Grenzideen as Generators of Metatheoretic Ascent
  • 5. "Parfaits Miroirs de l'Univers": A "Virtual" Interpretation of Leibnizian Metaphysics
  • 6. Berkeleyan Metalogical "Signs" and "Master Arguments"
  • 7. The Second-order Idealism of David Hume
  • 8. Kantian Ethics and "the Fate of Reason"
  • 9. Metamathematical Interpretations of Free Will and Determinism
  • 10. Time-Evolution in Random "Universes"
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Names
  • Main Index
  • Foreign Words Index