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Alexander George
ISBN: 9780195079296
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
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Those inquiring into the nature of mind have long been interested in the foundations of mathematics. A better understanding of mathematical thought should clarify the conceptual foundations of mathematics. This study probes the link between conceptions of mind and mathematics from various angles.
Those inquiring into the nature of mind have long been interested in the foundations of mathematics and vice versa. A better understanding of mathematical thought should clarify the conceptual foundations of mathematics, and a deeper grasp of the latter should in turn illuminate the powers of mind through which mathematics is made available to us. This volume's contributors have taken the link between conceptions of mind and mathematics as their topic, exploring and probing it from different perspectives.
| ISBN | 0195079299 | | Pages | 214 | | ISBN13 | 9780195079296
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc | | Weight (grammes) | 514 | | Imprint | Oxford University Press Inc | | Published in | New York | | Format | Hardback | | Series title | Logic & Computation in Philosophy S. | | Publication date | 08 Sep 1994 | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Non-book description | ix204 | | Width (mm) | 156 | | Library of Congress | QA8.6.M378 | | Spine width (mm) | 21 | | DEWEY | 510.1 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC20 | |
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| | | Contributors | | | | | | Introduction by Alexander George | | 3 | | 1 | | What Is Mathematics About? by Michael Dummett | | 11 | | 2 | | The Advantages of Honest Toil over Theft by George Boolos | | 27 | | 3 | | The Law of Excluded Middle and the Axiom of Choice by W. W. Tait | | 45 | | 4 | | Mechanical Procedures and Mathematical Experience by Wilfried Sieg | | 71 | | 5 | | Mathematical Intuition and Objectivity by Daniel Isaacson | | 118 | | 6 | | Intuition and Number by Charles Parsons | | 141 | | 7 | | Hilbert's Axiomatic Method and the Laws of Thought by Michael Hallett | | 158 | | | | Index | | 201 |
"The volume contains extremely interesting papers of high quality on the philosophy of mathematics. The book is compact, and a number of central philosophers of mathematics are discussed in detail."--Modern Logic "It includes several papers worthy of careful study."--Journal of Symbolic Logic  Be the first to write a customer review
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