Innovation and Certainty

ISBN-13: 9781108742290 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 75 str.

Mark Wilson

Opis

An overview of how mathematics' traditional domains of 'number and figure' have been vigorously displaced since the nineteenth century.

Recenzje

'Each new addition fills an unwanted gap and Wilson's aim is to get philosophers to pay attention to the seemingly un-mathematical ways mathematicians plug up theoretical holes and the philosophical consequences these measures have.' Mark Zelcer, Metascience

Spis treści

Preface; 1. Suggestions from the Symbols; 2. Innovation and Error; 3. Logicist Reconstruction; 4. Set Theoretic Ladders; 5. If -Thenism; 6. Exploratory Mathematics; 7. Unsuspected Kinships and Disassociations; 8. The Enlarging Architecture of Mathematical Reasoning.