Philosophy of mathematics books

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

A unique new book exploring Bernard Bolzano's Wissenschaftslehre (Theory of Science) and introducing a formal system...  Read More >>

L'etude de l'oeuvre de Guillaume Gosselin ( 1590 ca.) permet de reconnaitre en cet auteur peu frequente un mathematicien...  Read More >>

Probability theory is a key tool of the physical, mathematical, and social sciences, and is playing an increasingly...  Read More >>

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Thomas Hofweber explores four major metaphysical debates tied to ontology: the philosophy of arithmetic, the metaphysics...  Read More >>

Tracking the concept of 'work' in applied mechanics, from Carnot to new-generation polytechnical engineers such...  Read More >>

Sofia Kovalevskaya was a brilliant and determined young Russian woman of the 19th century who wanted to become a...  Read More >>

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A famous theorem from Gödel entails that if our thinking capacities do not go beyond what an electronic computer...  Read More >>

Graham Priest presents an account of the semantics of intentional language, which proceeds in terms of objects that...  Read More >>

This bookgathers the proceedings of the conference ""Cultures of Mathematics andLogic,"" held in Guangzhou, China....  Read More >>

First published in 1990, this book consists of a detailed exposition of results of the theory of ""interpretation""...  Read More >>

This work examines the main directions of research conducted on the history of mathematics education. It devotes...  Read More >>

This book addresses the logical aspects of the foundations of scientific theories. Even though the relevance of...  Read More >>

This book specifically explores Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations from the different angles of its originary...  Read More >>

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

A zebrafish, the hull of a miniature ship, a mathematical equation and a food chain - what do these things have...  Read More >>

Resonance examines some building blocks of epistemology as a prelude to the careful analysis of the foundations...  Read More >>

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This book presents a philosophical approach to probability and probabilistic thinking, considering the underpinnings...  Read More >>

The nature of reality has been a long-debated issue among scientists and philosophers. In 1930, Rabindranath Tagore...  Read More >>