Philosophy of mathematics books

Mancosu offers an original investigation of key notions in mathematics: abstraction and infinity, and their interaction....  Read More >>

Not all scientific explanations work by describing causal connections between events or the world's overall causal...  Read More >>

This volume brings together Terence Horgan's essays on paradoxes, both published and new. A common theme unifying...  Read More >>

Abstractionism is a recent and much debated position in the philosophy of mathematics. This collection of 16 original...  Read More >>

Paolo Mancosu provides an original investigation of historical and systematic aspects of the notions of abstraction...  Read More >>

Ethnography and oriental mythologies clearly show the archaic modelling of creative energy through the contradictory...  Read More >>

Die nicht zu überschätzende Rolle, die islamische Gelehrte bei...  Read More >>

While the phrase ""metaphysics of science"" has been used from time to time, it has only recently begun to denote...  Read More >>

Alex Oliver and Timothy Smiley provide a new account of plural logic. They argue that there is such a thing as genuinely...  Read More >>

Leçons sur les séries trigonométriques: professées au Collège de France / par Henri Lebesgue, ... Date de l'édition...  Read More >>

Oronce Fine was appointed to the first chair of mathematics at the Institution of Royal Lecturers in Paris. This...  Read More >>

Medieval Europe was a meeting place for the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic civilizations, and the fertile intellectual...  Read More >>

The seventeen thought-provoking and engaging essays in this collection present readers with a wide range of diverse...  Read More >>

Science Without Numbers caused a stir in 1980, with its bold nominalist approach to the philosophy of mathematics...  Read More >>

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This volume brings together the proceedings of the ""European Summer School for Process Thought"", which took place...  Read More >>

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This book aims to facilitate consilience, or convergence, between the humanities and natural sciences. The sophistication...  Read More >>

""The book that inspired the movie""--Cover.  Read More >>

Not all scientific explanations work by describing causal connections between events or the world's overall causal...  Read More >>

This Very Short Introduction considers who Leibniz was and introduces his overarching intellectual vision. It follows...  Read More >>

Originaltext mit ausführlichen mathematischen sowie historischen Kommentaren von Eberhard Knobloch und aktualisierter...  Read More >>

In this new text, Steven Givant—the author of several acclaimed books, including works co-authored with Paul Halmos...  Read More >>

The editors were the co-chairs of the study (Damlamian, Straesser) and the organiser of the Study Conference (Rodrigues)....  Read More >>

Why bother to praise mathematics when you claim, as Alain Badiou does, that philosophy is first and foremost a metaphysics...  Read More >>