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Title: Philosophy of Mathematics
Condition: New
Subtitle: Selected Readings
EAN: 9780521296489
ISBN: 9780521296489
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 01/27/1984
Description: The twentieth century has witnessed an unprecedented 'crisis in the foundations of mathematics', featuring a world-famous paradox (Russell's Paradox), a challenge to 'classical' mathematics from a world-famous mathematician (the 'mathematical intuitionism' of Brouwer), a new foundational school (Hilbert's Formalism), and the profound incompleteness results of Kurt Gödel. In the same period, the cross-fertilization of mathematics and philosophy resulted in a new sort of 'mathematical philosophy', associated most notably (but in different ways) with Bertrand Russell, W. V. Quine, and Gödel himself, and which remains at the focus of Anglo-Saxon philosophical discussion. The present collection brings together in a convenient form the seminal articles in the philosophy of mathematics by these and other major thinkers. It is a substantially revised version of the edition first published in 1964 and includes a revised bibliography. The volume will be welcomed as a major work of reference at this level in the field.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 232mm
Item Length: 153mm
Item Width: 39mm
Item Weight: 910g
Contributor: Hilary Putnam (Edited by), Paul Benacerraf (Edited by)
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: Science Nature & Math
Author: Hilary Putnam
Release Year: 1984

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