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Mathematical Thought and Its Objects

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Produktbeschreibung

In Mathematical Thought and Its Objects, Charles Parsons examines the notion of object.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 647g
• ISBN-13: 9780521119115
• ISBN-10: 0521119111
• Artikelnr.: 26572676

Autorenporträt

Charles Parsons holds an AB (mathematics) and PhD (philosophy) from Harvard University and studied for a year at King's College, Cambridge. He was on the faculty at Harvard University from 1962-5 and 1989-2005 and at Columbia University from 1965-89. His publications are mainly in logic, philosophy of mathematics, and Kant. He was an editor of the posthumous works of Kurt Gödel (Collected Works, Volumes III-V).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Objects and logic
2. Structuralism and nominalism
3. Modality and structuralism
4. A problem about sets
5. Intuition
6. Numbers as objects
7. Intuitive arithmetic and its limits
8. Mathematical induction
9. Reason.