Reason's Nearest Kin: Philosophies of Arithmetic from Kant to Carnap

ISBN-13: 9780199252619 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 315 str.

Michael Potter

Opis

This is a critical examination of the astonishing progress made in the philosophical study of the properties of the natural numbers from the 1880s to the 1930s. Reassessing the brilliant innovations of Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, and others, which transformed philosophy as well as our understanding of mathematics, Michael Potter places arithmetic at the interface between experience, language, thought, and the world.

Recenzje

This is an excellent book: informative, suggestive, and a genuine pleasure to read.

O autorze

Michael Potter is Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and University Lecturer in Philosophy, having previously been Director of Studies in Mathematics.