The History of Continua: Philosophical and Mathematical Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780198809647 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 592 str.

Stewart Shapiro; Geoffrey Hellman

Recenzje

Mathematicians and philosophers alike will appreciate this carefully articulated study of mereology, rigorously detailed and beautifully presented.

O autorze

Stewart Shapiro received an M.A. in mathematics in 1975, and a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1978, both from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is currently the O'Donnell Professor of Philosophy at The Ohio State University, and serves as Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Connecticut, and Presidential Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has contributed to the philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language, logic, and philosophy of logic. Geoffrey Hellman received his BA and PhD from Harvard (PhD 1973). He has published widely in philosophy of quantum mechanics and philosophy of mathematics, developing a modal-structural interpretation of mathematics. He has also worked on predicative foundations of arithmetic (with Solomon Feferman) and pluralism in mathematics (with John L. Bell). In 2007 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He and Stewart Shapiro co-authored Varieties of Continua: from Regions to Points and Back (Oxford, 2018).