Overview

This volume focuses on the importance of historical enquiry for the appreciation of philosophical problems concerning mathematics. It contains a well-balanced mixture of contributions by internationally established experts, such as Jeremy Gray and Jens Hoyrup; upcoming scholars, such as Erich Reck and Dirk Schlimm; and young, promising researchers at the beginning of their careers. The book is situated within a relatively new and broadly naturalistic tradition in the philosophy of mathematics. In this alternative philosophical current, which has been dramatically growing in importance in the last few decades, unlike in the traditional schools, proper attention is paid to scientific practices as informing for philosophical accounts.

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Author:   Bart Van Kerkhove (Vrije Univ Brussel, Belgium)
Publisher:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Imprint:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.567kg
ISBN:  

9789812812223

ISBN 10:   9812812229
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   15 December 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Towards an Informed Argument from Geometry (H De Cruz); Whitehead, The Serpent in Russell's Paradise (R Desmet); A Mathematician and a Philosopher on the Science-Likeness of Mathematics (E Glas); Nineteenth-Century Analysis as a Philosophy of Mathematics (J Gray); On the Origin and Nature of Algebraic Symbolism (A Heeffer); What Did the Abacus Teachers Really Do When They (Sometimes) Ended Up Doing Mathematics? (J Hoyrup); Representations as Means and Ends (H Kragh Sorensen); Diagrammatic Reasoning in Euclid's Elements (D Macbeth); Reading Diophantos (A Meskens); Philosophical Method and Galileo's Paradox of Infinity (M Parker); Bridging Theorems with Axioms: Boole, Stone, and Tarski (D Schlimm); Dedekind, Structural Reasoning and Mathematical Understanding (E Reck).

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