Buch

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Übersicht

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Verlag	:	Springer International Publishing
Buchreihe	:	Jerusalem Studies in Philosophy and History of Science
Sprache	:	Englisch
Erschienen	:	07. 05. 2024
Seiten	:	393
Einband	:	Kartoniert
Höhe	:	235 mm
Breite	:	155 mm
ISBN	:	9783031216572
Sprache	:	Englisch
Illustrationen	:	XXII, 393 p. 1 illus.

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Autorinformation

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Carl Posy has published widely in the philosophy of mathematics and in the history of philosophy.   He is the author of Mathematical Intuitionism (Cambridge 2020), and the editor of Kant’s Philosophy of Mathematics: Modern Essays (Kluwer, 1992). He co-edited (with Jack Copeland and Oron Shagrir) Computability: Turing, Gödel, Church and Beyond (MIT, 2013), and (with Ofra Rechter) Kant’s Philosophy of Mathematics, Volume I:  The Critical Philosophy and Its Roots (Cambridge, 2020); and Kant’s Philosophy of Mathematics, Volume II:  Reception and Influence (Cambridge, Forthcoming)Yemima Ben-Menahem is a philosopher of science, specializing in the philosophy of physics. She is author of Conventionalism (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and Causation in Science (Princeton University Press, 2018. She edited Hilary Putnam (Cambridge University Press 2005) and coedited (with Meir Hemmo) Probability in Physics (Springer, 2012)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Preface.- Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Purity and Explanation: Essentially Linked?.- Chapter 3. Rules, Conventions, and Regularities.- Chapter 4. On Mathematical Explanation.- Chapter 5. Steiner’s Wittgenstein.- Chapter 6. Logic Discovered and Imposed.- Chapter 7. Mathematical Analogies and Applicability in Physics.- Chapter 8. Learning Cardinals and Ordinals.- Chapter 9. Buck Stopping and  Identification of Numbers.- Chapter 10. Platonism and the Proto-Ontology of Mathematics.- Chapter 11. Potential infinity, Mathematical Explanation and de re Reference to Mathematical Objects.- Chapter 12. Mathematics and Physical Discovery.- Chapter 13. Observer Dependent Naturalism.- Chapter 14. David Hume’s Treatise View of Geometry.- Index.

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