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Philosophy of mathematics /
Mathematics is one of humanity's most successful yet puzzling endeavors. It is a model of precision and objectivity, but appears distinct from the empirical sciences because it seems to deliver nonexperiential knowledge of a nonphysical reality of numbers, sets, and functions. How can these two...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Princeton foundations of contemporary philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE Mathematics as a Philosophical Challenge; CHAPTER TWO Frege's Logicism; CHAPTER THREE Formalism and Deductivism; CHAPTER FOUR Hilbert's Program; CHAPTER FIVE Intuitionism; CHAPTER SIX Empiricism about Mathematics; CHAPTER SEVEN Nominalism; CHAPTER EIGHT Mathematical Intuition; CHAPTER NINE Abstraction Reconsidered; CHAPTER TEN The Iterative Conception of Sets; CHAPTER ELEVEN Structuralism; CHAPTER TWELVE The Quest for New Axioms; Concluding Remarks; Bibliography; Index.