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Essays in the philosophy and history of logic and mathematics /

The book is a collection of the author's selected works in the philosophy and history of logic and mathematics. Papers in Part I include both general surveys of contemporary philosophy of mathematics as well as studies devoted to specialized topics, like Cantor's philosophy of set theory,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Murawski, Roman
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Polaco
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2010.
Colección:Poznań studies in the philosophy of the sciences and the humanities ; v. 98.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cantor's philosophy of set theory
  • Leibniz's and Kant's philosophical ideas vs. Hilbert's program
  • Truth vs. provability : philosophical and historical remarks
  • Philosophy of mathematics in the 20th Century : main trends and doctrines
  • On new trends in the philosophy of mathematics
  • Remarks on the structuralistic epistemology of mathematics / with Izabela Bondecka-Krzykowska
  • From the history of the concept of number / with Thomas Bedürftig
  • Church's thesis and Its epistemological status
  • Phenomenology and philosophy of mathematics
  • Hoene-Wroński : genius or madman?
  • Grassmann's contribution to mathematics
  • Giuseppe Peano and symbolic logic
  • E.L. Post and the development of logic
  • John von Neumann and Hilbert's school
  • Contribution of Polish logicians to decidability theory
  • Contribution of Polish logicians to predicate calculus
  • The English algebra of logic in the 19th century
  • The development of symbolism in logic and its philosophical background / with Thomas Bedürftig.