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Author: James Robert Brown
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Volume: 10
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.340kg
ISBN: 9780415872669
ISBN 10: 0415872669
Pages: 194
Publication Date: 13 December 2011
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Brown argues that mathematics does not explain physical phenomena in the sense of accounting for them, but that it does explain them in the sense of making them comprehensible...this is a clear and engaging book, mainly for professional philosophers or graduate students in philosophy, that contains many on-target criticisms of naturalism. - A.C. Paseau, Wadham College, University of Oxford, UK in Philosophia Mathematica Brown's book is a useful addition to recent debates in the philosophy of mathematics. - Christopher Pincock, The Ohio State University, US in Mind
Brown argues that mathematics does not explain physical phenomena in the sense of accounting for them, but that it does explain them in the sense of making them comprehensible...this is a clear and engaging book, mainly for professional philosophers or graduate students in philosophy, that contains many on-target criticisms of naturalism. - A.C. Paseau, Wadham College, University of Oxford, UK in Philosophia Mathematica Brown's book is a useful addition to recent debates in the philosophy of mathematics. - Christopher Pincock, The Ohio State University, US in Mind
Brown argues that mathematics does not explain physical phenomena in the sense of accounting for them, but that it does explain them in the sense of making them comprehensible...this is a clear and engaging book, mainly for professional philosophers or graduate students in philosophy, that contains many on-target criticisms of naturalism. - A.C. Paseau, Wadham College, University of Oxford, UK in Philosophia Mathematica Brown's book is a useful addition to recent debates in the philosophy of mathematics. - Christopher Pincock, The Ohio State University, US in Mind
Author Information
James Robert Brown is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. aHis interests include foundational issues in mathematics and physics, thought experiments, and the relations of science to society. Recent books include: Who Rules? An Opinionated Guide to the Epistemology and Politics of the Science Wars, Harvard, and new editions of The Laboratory of the Mind: Thought Experiments in the Natural Sciences,aRoutledge, and Philosophy of Mathematics: An Introduction to the World of Proofs and Pictures, Routledge.
