Why Is There Philosophy of Mathematics at All?

ISBN-13: 9781107050174 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 308 str.

Ian Hacking

Opis

Ian Hacking draws on cognitive sciences, evolutionary psychology, neurology, developmental psychology, and cognitive archaeology (tools and the mind) to explore how mathematics became possible, for a species like ours, on a planet like this.

Recenzje

'Hacking has composed a great overview of our understanding of mathematics and of the historical turning points and philosophical basics.' Peeter Müürsepp, Mathematical Reviews

Spis treści

Foreword; 1. A Cartesian introduction; 2. What makes mathematics mathematics?; 3. Why is there philosophy of mathematics?; 4. Proofs; 5. Applications; 6. In Plato's name; 7. Counter-Platonisms; Disclosures.