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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.
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Philosophy of Mathematics, Hilary Putnam, Paul Benacerraf
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1983
- Einband
- (Paperback)
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- Titel
- Philosophy of Mathematics
- Untertitel
- Selected Readings
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Hilary Putnam, Paul Benacerraf
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1983
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 612
- ISBN10
- 052129648X
- ISBN13
- 9780521296489
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Handbücher und Anleitungen, Wissenschaft, Forschung, Metaphysik, Logik, Politische Philosophie, Methodologie, Philosophie der Mathematik
- Beschreibung
- 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.